Wittgenstein

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Eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

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Source: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1921 (German) / 1922 (English), proposition 6.4311

Genuine, but truncated in a way that changes its force. The full proposition is conditional: 'If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.' Stripped of the antecedent it reads as devotional advice rather than a claim about timelessness. Author field should be expanded to Ludwig Wittgenstein.

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