Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes on Time
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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. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. (6.4311)
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If someone is merely ahead of his time, it will catch up to him one day. (p. 8e)
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Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing? (p. 14e)
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One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.