"Thursday night." "... —then Lytton [Strachey] came to tea to meet Wittgenstein, which he wished to do. Everybody has just begun to discover Wittgenstein; they all now realize that he has genius. He was very good at tea. He is the only man I have ever met with a real bias for philosophical scepticism; he is glad when it is proved that something can't be known. I told Hardy this, and Hardy said he himself would be glad to prove anything: 'If I could prove by logic that you would die in five minutes, I should be sorry you were going to die, but my sorrow would be very much mitigated by pleasure in the proof.' On reflection I found that I agreed with him."