“It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Conversation of 1934
Personal Recollections (1981)

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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