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Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them — that does not occur to them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein on music

Culture and Value (1980), p. 36e

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