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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis [i. e., under the aspect of eternity]; and the good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis. This is the connection between art and ethics.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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