"Thursday evg." "It seems strange that of all the people in the war the one I should care for much the most should be Wittgenstein who is an 'enemy'. I feel an absolute conviction that he will not survive—he is reckless and blind and ill. I will know nothing till the war is over. If he does survive I think the war will have done him good."

Four hours dictating Oxford lecture: "Dictating is a grand way of saving time, but it is very tiring because one has to think so much more quickly than when one writes oneself."