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

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    “Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “What can be shown, cannot be said.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “Always and last, before the final ring
    When all the fireworks blare, begins
    A tom-tom scrimmage with a somewhere violin,
    Some cheapest echo of them all—begins.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “What is it then between us?
    What is the count of the scores or hundreds of years between us?

    Whatever it is, it avails not—distance avails not, and
    place avails not,”
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)