4 Quotes by Georg Henrik von Wright

He was of the opinion... that his ideas were generally misunderstood and distorted even by those who professed to be his disciples. He doubted he would be better understood in the future. He once said he felt as though he were writing for people who would think in a different way, breathe a different air of life, from that of present-day men.{Von Wright on his tutor, the great philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein}

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either.

Society is becoming less and less transparent. People no longer know where decisions that substantially affect their lives are taken, nor by whom, nor how.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.