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

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    Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    So often, as the septuagenarian reflects on life’s rewards, we hear that, “in the final analysis” of money, power, prestige, and marriage, fathering alone was what “mattered.”
    Kyle D. Pruett (20th century)

    All through the years of our youth
    Neither could have known
    Their own thought from the other’s,
    We were so much at one.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)