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

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    “Logic must look after itself.... In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to.—The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “With a dead sound on the final stroke of nine.”
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    “The years go by in single file;
    But none has merited my fear,
    And none has quite escaped my smile.”
    —Elinor Wylie (1885–1928)