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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Nowadays it is the fashion to emphasize the horrors of the last war. I didn't find it so horrible. There are just as horrible things happening all round us today, if only we had eyes to see them.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

War

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Wittgenstein is saying that people often focus on how terrible the last war was, but he personally did not see it as uniquely horrible. He believes that equally terrible events are happening right now, but most people fail to notice them.

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