Famous quotes containing the words ludwig wittgenstein, wittgenstein, final and/or years:
“The world is everything that is the case.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“The subject does not belong to the world; rather, it is a limit of the world.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“A poem is like a person. Though it has a family tree, it is important not because of its ancestors but because of its individuality. The poem, like any human being, is something more than its most complete analysis. Like any human being, it gives a sense of unified individuality which no summary of its qualities can reproduce; and at the same time a sense of variety which is beyond satisfactory final analysis.”
—Donald Stauffer (b. 1930)
“I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)