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

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    “The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have found, on all essential points, the final solution of the problems. And if I am not mistaken in this belief, then the second thing in which the value of this work consists is that it shows how little is achieved when these problems are solved.”
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    “If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”
    —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)

    “Inside, the others sat at their carpentry, varnishing, sorting, gluing, had still two years, five years to do. He was standing at the carstop.
    The punishment begins.”
    —Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)