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by freyr 2525 days ago
For someone so obsessed with language, I never understood why his writing is so cryptic. I haven't read the original, but in translation, his writing seems almost purposefully ambiguous. To people here versed in philosophy, was there really a purpose for this? Could his ideas not have been expressed more clearly or explicitly?
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The less clearly you write, the more chance you give people to read in your texts what they want to see there. And then they will feel good about you having the same opinion.

Someone expressing himself clearly would not become so famous.