Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Miracle