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)

    “It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the earth 150 years ago, perhaps I should be more willing to listen, for now he is doubting our whole system of evidence.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “Dignity: the doomed man’s final refuge.”
    —Max Frisch (1911–1991)

    “He worked for twenty years to get his contemporaries to believe—and in the end he succeeded. Meanwhile, however, his adversaries also succeeded: he could no longer believe in himself.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)