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I find Wittgenstein's work in PI to be actually pretty therapeutic. He's not really insistent on finding the solution to a philosophical problem. His method is more about dissolving seemingly intractable philosophical problems by patient analysis of the assumptions hidden in our use of language. Seen in that way, his philosophical work is less focused on capital T truth, and more on clarification. We know for a fact though that he did struggle with coming up with his method, that it caused him something like mental anguish for his perfectionist mindset; but I don't think that reveals something inherent about the nature of philosophy. Instead, I think that reveals how terribly knotted our ways of thinking can get when we engage in language games that are seemingly intractable for 1000s of years.

His biography is actually incredible. I would recommend it; he lived through incredible disaster, tragedy, and triumph. He was an odd man to say the least, but he was also a brilliant philosopher, arguably the 20th century's most important.