“The purely corporeal can be uncanny. Compare the way angels and devils are portrayed. So-called "miracles" must be connected with this. A miracle must be, as it were, a sacred gesture.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 50e

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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