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Tuesday, 20 October 2015

Wittgenstein on the decline of culture

"Ich habe einmal, und vielleicht mit Recht, gesagt: Aus der fruheren Kultur wird ein Trümmerhaufen und am Schluss ein Aschenhaufen werden, aber es werden Geister über die Asche Schweben."

"Once I have said, and perhaps rightly so: the former culture will turn into a heap of rubble and in the end into a heap of ashes, but spirits will be hovering over the ashes."

From: 'Culture and Value'.

It makes me think of a saying by Robert Frost - here slightly paraphrased:

"Art is a way of remembering what it would impoverish us to forget".

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