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I read an interesting anecdote about Wittgenstein the other day. After publishing the Tractatus (supposedly solving philosophy for good), he took a job as a schoolteacher in an Austrian village. He was a brutal teacher and often beat the children - eventually he was forced to resign when word of his cruelty got out.
Years later he returned to the village and visited his ex-pupils who were now adults. He went from house to house begging them, sometimes on his knees, to forgive his treatment of them when they were children - none of them forgave him.
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