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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All things flow.
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For Being is, and non-Being is not.
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