"No one has ever yet got into trouble from a contradiction in logic," Wittgenstein insisted.
But his hour-long keynote speech at Berlin's World Architecture festival went further in expounding his radical worldview than he had ever yet dared.
All things that she had ever yet desired All dreams that her starved girlhood's heart had fired All that life held of yet unknown delight Shone, to her ignorance, in colors bright.
"I send herewith unto His Majesty the strangest piece of news," it reads, "that he has ever yet received from any part of the world," for a "mathematical professor at Padua" had "overthrown all former astronomy".
What is clear is that the Achaemenian Empire the largest anyone had ever yet tried to hold together and one that was not surpassed until Rome reached its height was a profound force in western Asia and in Europe during an important period of ferment and transition in human history.
He expressed his dislike for Marie Corelli, one of England's most florid popular novelists, by saying that "in any other society than Marie Corelli's, my spirit is the sweetest that has ever yet descended upon this planet from my ancestors, the angels".
He made no claim to originality: 'Pragmatism represents a perfectly familiar attitude in philosophy, the empiricist attitude', although he acknowledged that it did so 'in a more radical and in a less objectionable form than it has ever yet assumed' (1907: 31).
I f*ckin ever seen in my f*ckin life," he began, "which I've ever yet to f*ckin finish, because that shit is f*ckin' scary, is The f*ckin Exorcist".
"I could, with only a modest share of patronage open a new avenue of trade more lucrative than any that our country has ever yet enjoyed, and further, it would be in my power, and mine alone, to secure the monopoly for any term I pleased".
The method thus modified, renders possible a far stronger application of the traction, than has ever yet been obtained, and permits the lengthening of the fleshy parts of a shortened limb, without its giving us any anxiety and without other limitation in the application of the force, save only for the harm which it might cause to the physiologic functions of the tissues to be lengthened.
