[Marxism] Wittgenstein on social envy

["Jurriaan Bendien" <andromeda246@xxxxxxxxx>]

The quarrel [between Newton and Leibniz] is simply the expression of evil
weaknesses and fostered by vile people. Just what would Newton have lost if
he had acknowledged Leibniz's originality? Absolutely nothing! He would have
gained a lot. And yet how hard it is to acknowledge something of this sort:
someone who tries it feels as though he were confessing his own incapacity.
... It's a question of envy of course. And anyone who experiences it ought
to keep on telling himself: "It's a mistake! It's a mistake! -- "

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1947)


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