Ludwig Wittgenstein/1947%e2%80%931951 - Final Years

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    “You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?—In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?—Or is the use its life?”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing—that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)