| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 65119 |
| QUOTATION: | You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Ludwig Wittgenstein (18891951), Austrian philosopher. Culture and Value, journal entry for 1929, eds. G.H. von Wright and Heikki Nyman (1980). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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