מתוך "שיחות עם ויטגנשטיין" של מאוריס או־קונר דרורי

 

":WITTGENSTEIN: I have been reading in a German author, a contemporary of Kant's, Hamann, where he says, commenting on the story of the Fall in Genesis: 'How like God to wait until the cool of the evening before confronting Adam with his transgression.' Now I wouldn't  for the life of me dare to say, 'how like God'. I wouldn't claim  to know how God should act. Do you understand Hamann's remark ? Tell me what you think - I would really like to know.

DRURY: Perhaps if something terrible had happened to one at a time when one felt strong enough to bear it, then one might say: 'Thank God this didn't happen before, when I could not have stood up to it.'

Wittgenstein didn't seem pleased with this answer.

WITTGENSTEIN: For a truly religious man nothing is tragic."

Maurice O' Connor Drury, Conversations with Wittgenstein in The Selected Writings of Maurice O' Connor Drury on Wittenstein, Philosophy, Religion and Psychiatry, Ed. John Hayes, Bloomsbury Academic, Bloomsbury Publishing Pic, p. 100