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“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“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.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Religion is the opium of the masses.”
Karl Marx
“History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce.”
Karl Marx
“It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.”
Karl Marx
“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”
Karl Marx
“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”
Epicurus
“Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.”
Epicurus
“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”
Epictetus
“The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“After your death you will be what you were before your birth.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.”
Jean-Paul Sartre