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Wittgenstein's nihilistic stage 4.5: "in his youth Ludwig showed great interest in all things technical. He was sent to the technical university in Berlin where he studied aeronautical engineering. At this time or shortly after..."
"...reflection on philosophical problems suddenly became an obsession with him and it took hold of him so completely against his will that he suffered terribly. This was the first of many transformations throughout his life and it shook his whole being. "
The quotes from Russel’s are priceless! “Getting to know Wittgenstein was one of the greatest intellectual adventures of my life. HR has more passion about philosophy than I have… it makes me love him” How wonderful for a mentor to describe one thus.
“He expressed the most naive surprise that all the philosophers he once worshipped… are after all stupid and dishonest and make disgusting mistakes” 
“He told me that for 9 years he had suffered terrific loneliness and continually thought of suicide… the worries he cannot help, for he is mad.” “Wittgenstein said ‘God preserve him from sanity’. God certainly will”
How lucky that we have @Meaningness to help us through the madness.
Wittgenstein on serving in WW1: “the war saved my life, I don’t know what I would have done without it” I love this man too
“What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it, like my eye, in its visual field. That something about it is problematic which we call: its meaning. That this meaning does not lie in it, but outside it....
"...That life is my world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good and evil, therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world. The meaning of life, in other words, the meaning of the world, we can call: God.”
He also studied aeronautics at UMIST in Manchester and spent some time testing aerodynamics on the moors near the Grouse Inn outside Glossop. Which (along with his homosexuality and frequent need to 'confess' to weary friends) might also lead to nihilism :-)
Damn that started as a joke then I spoiled it.
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