Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactl… - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?!

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-born philosopher who spent much of his life in England.

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Native Name: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein

Alternative Names: Ludwig Joseph Johann Wittgenstein • Wittgenstein

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To imagine a language means to imagine a form of life.

It is now how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it (the world) exists at all.....

If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

Suppose someone were to say: 'Imagine this butterfly exactly as it is, but ugly instead of beautiful'?! - Ludwig Wittgenstein

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