Ludwig Wittgenstein/1947-1951 - Final Years

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    If you do know that here is one hand, we’ll grant you all the rest.
    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)

    Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969)

    We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always. The Indians have left no traces on its surface, but it is the same to the civilized man and the savage. The aspect of the shore only has changed.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)