Our civilization is characterized by the word `progress'. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is only sought as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves. I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of typical buildings.

Famous Quotes / Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Ludwig Wittgenstein: "Our civilization is characterized by the word `progress'. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is only sought as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves. I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of typical buildings."

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Building	Buildings	Characterized	Civilization
Clarity	Complicated	Constructing	Constructs
Contrary	Even	Features	Form
Foundations	Having	Interested	Itself
Making	Means	Occupied	Perspicuity
Perspicuous	Progress	Rather	Sought
Structure	Themselves	Typical	Typically
Valuable	View	Word

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Our civilization is characterized by the word `progress'. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure. And even clarity is only sought as a means to this end, not as an end in itself. For me on the contrary clarity, perspicuity are valuable in themselves. I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of typical buildings. - Ludwig Wittgenstein