“The world is everything that is the case.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Original German: Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist.
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
Variant: The world is all that is the case.
Context: The world is all that is the case. (1)

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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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