"Because our goals are not lofty but illusory, our problems are not difficult, but nonsensical."
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"Every sign by itself seems dead. What gives it life?--In use it is alive. Is life breathed into it there?--Or is the use its life?"
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"A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism."
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""It is necessary to be given the prop that all elementary props are given." This is not necessary because it is even impossible. There is no such prop! That all elementary props are given is SHOWN by there being none having an elementary sense which is not given."
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"Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it."
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"What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use."
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"The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy."
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"There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity."
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"The feeling of an unbridgeable gulf between consciousness and brain-process:When does this feeling occur in the present case?It is when I (for example) turn my attention in a particular way on to my own consciousness, and, astonished, say to myself: THIS is supposed to be produced by a process in the brain!--as it were clutching my forehead."
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"Here the term 'language-game' is meant to bring into prominence the fact that the speaking of language is part of an activity, of a form of life."
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"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity."
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"Philosophical problems can be compared to locks on safes, which can be opened by dialing a certain word or number, so that no force can open the door until just this word has been hit upon, and once it is hit upon any child can open it."
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"A philosophical problem has the form: I don't know my way about."
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"It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him."
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"Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic."
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"Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words. You say:;: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning."
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"If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow side, it would give us the same impression as a north wind coming from the southwest."
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"Dark' and 'blackish' are not the same concept."
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"Philosophy limits the thinkable and therefore the unthinkable."
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"White must be the lightest color in a picture."
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