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The eternal life is given to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Age: 62 †
Born: 1889
Born: April 26
Died: 1951
Died: April 29
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I act with complete certainty. But this certainty is my own.
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To think that you are not following a rule is to follow a rule.
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Language disguises the thought so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.
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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
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A picture is a model of reality.
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We must plow through the whole of language.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
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We see, not change of aspect, but change of interpretation.
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