To the glory of the most high God alone, and that my neighbour may be educated thereby.

Dem höchsten Gott allein zu Ehren,
Dem Nächsten draus sich zu belehren.

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Epigraph to the Orgelbüchlein, cited from Carl Hermann Bitter Johann Sebastian Bach (Berlin: Ferdinand Schneider, 1865), vol. 1, p. 145; translation from Rush Rhees (ed.) Ludwig Wittgenstein: Personal Recollections (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1981), p. 182

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