Famous quotes containing the words ludwig wittgenstein, ludwig, wittgenstein, final and/or years:
“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed “Wisdom.” And then I know exactly what is going to follow: “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.””
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“It had been a wonderful evening. And what I needed now to give it the perfect ending was a bit of the old Ludwig Van.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“A confession has to be part of your new life.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing—that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“To be honest, I knew that there was no difference between dying at their years old and dying at seventy because, naturally, in both cases, other men and women will live on, for thousands of years at that.... It was still I who was dying, whether it was today or twenty years from now.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)