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

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    “The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “The final upshot of thinking is the exercise of volition, and of this thought no longer forms a part; but belief is only a stadium of mental action, an effect upon our nature due to thought, which will influence future thinking.”
    —Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)

    “I have started to say
    “A quarter of a century”
    Or “thirty years back”
    About my own life.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)