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Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Biography

Author Profession: Philosopher
Nationality: Austrian
Born: April 26, 1889
Died: April 29, 1951

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Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
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The limits of my language means the limits of my world.
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A picture is a fact.
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The world is independent of my will.
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What can be shown, cannot be said.
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The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
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The face is the soul of the body.
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