Famous quotes containing the words ludwig wittgenstein, wittgenstein, final and/or years:
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
—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)
“The Jew is neither a newcomer nor an alien in this country or on this continent; his Americanism is as original and ancient as that of any race or people with the exception of the American Indian and other aborigines. He came in the caravels of Columbus, and he knocked at the gates of New Amsterdam only thirty-five years after the Pilgrim Fathers stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock.”
—Oscar Solomon Straus (1850–1926)