Why Wittgenstein?

Andrew – we're on a first name basis now — throws in some quote in the German for July 4 and I gotta, ya know I gotta, go read about him.
My favorite so far:

He felt that giving money to the poor could only corrupt them further, whereas the rich would not be harmed by it.

I haven't found the Andrew quote, but this one seems to fit me today:

"Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in the way in which our visual field has no limits." — Wittgenstein, Tractatus, 6.431^[51]