Famous quotes containing the words ludwig wittgenstein, wittgenstein, final and/or years:
“A philosophical problem has the form: “I don’t know my way about.””
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
“By his mere quiet power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“On a late-winter evening in 1983, while driving through fog along the Maine coast, recollections of old campfires began to drift into the March mist, and I thought of the Abnaki Indians of the Algonquin tribe who dwelt near Bangor a thousand years ago.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)