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.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it continued to move as we see it moving now. We do not realize that it moves not in a straight line and that its direction changes constantly.

[M]an is fulfilling the purpose of existence who no longer needs to have any purpose except to live. That is to say, who is content.