How should I be able to bow or to curtail my wants, now that... - Ludwig Wittgenstein

"How should I be able to bow or to curtail my wants, now that I am convinced that the only wealth I shall ever have is spiritual wealth."

Ludwig Wittgenstein Happiness

Philosopher Austrian-British 1889–1951

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"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"The world is everything that is the case."

"Babalú!"

"My greatest joy is making people smile."

"Laughter and love make a home."

"The best things in life are free."