Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. On Certainty. Edited by G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright, translated by Denis Paul and G. E. M. Anscombe, Harper & Row, 1969, p. 81e.
among the wives of the king
Attila the Hun. They were discussing a structure for negotiating Attila’s grievance against Rome.
There are many democracies that have run into this problem at many times. Even the United States had situations like this. The Adams-Jefferson Presidential Contest caused President Adams to curtail civil rights so he could not be as viciously attacked. The polarization after the first Black was elected president in 2008 was another period of destructive contention and polarization.
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.