Thursday 1 July 2010

Cambridge

"I was walking about in Cambridge and passed a bookshop and in the window were portraits of Russell, Freud and Einstein. A little further on, in a music shop, I saw portraits of Beethoven, Schubert and Chopin. Comparing these portraits I felt intensely the terrible degeneration that had come over the human spirit in the course of only a hundred years".

1. Who said this?

2. Do you agree?

3. Is it not truer today than it was sixty years ago when, approximately, this quote was made?

2 comments:

  1. 1. Ludwig Wittgenstein

    2. No, I don't. Even if he was not evidence to the contrary there were plenty of others who were.

    3. This is conditional on an positive answer to 2. :-)

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