The world is everything that is the case.
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
Philosophers
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Austrian philosopher born in 1889 who gave away his fortune and twice redrew the map of philosophy. His Tractatus set language limits; his Philosophical Investigations dismantled his own framework.
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Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 命題1Verified
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For Being is, and non-Being is not.
-- Parmenides
All things flow.
-- Heraclitus
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
For whom emptiness works, everything works. For whom emptiness does not work, nothing works.
-- Nagarjuna
Philosophy is the knowledge of beings qua beings.
-- Farabi