"Will you please tell me if I am a complete idiot?"

He would, according to Russell, ‘pace up and down my room like a wild beast for three hours in agitated silence’. (1)

"When we do philosophy we are like savages, primitive people, who hear the expressions of civilized men, put a false interpretation on them, and then draw the queerest conclusions from it."

Wittgenstein, PI §194

(1) Ray Monk: Wittgenstein