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

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    Man has to awaken to wonder—and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    It is so characteristic, that just when the mechanics of reproduction are so vastly improved, there are fewer and fewer people who know how the music should be played.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    Her wrongs are ... indissolubly linked with all undefended woe, all helpless suffering, and the plenitude of her “rights” will mean the final triumph of all right over might, the supremacy of the moral forces of reason and justice and love in the government of the nation. God hasten the day.
    Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)

    Seventy years have I lived
    No ragged beggar man,
    Seventy years have I lived,
    Seventy years man and boy,
    And never have I danced for joy.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)