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" "6.45 : To view the world sub specie aeterni is to view it as a whole — a limited whole.
Feeling the world as a limited whole — it is this that is mystical.
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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