Ludwig Wittgenstein/1947-1951 - Final Years

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    A picture is a fact.
    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)

    Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
    —Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

    However others calculate the cost,
    To us the final aggregate is one,
    One with a name, one transferred to the blest;
    And though another stoops and takes the gun,
    We cannot add the second to the first.
    Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)

    The years do not wait for us.
    —Chinese proverb.

    Confucian Analects.