You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.

I'm doing philosophy like an old woman, first I'm looking for my pencil, then I'm looking for my glasses, then I'm looking for my pencil again.

Most of the propositions and questions to be found in philosophical works are not false but nonsensical.

To understand a sentence means to understand a language. To understand a language means to be master of a technique.

Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?

I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would give up trying to get there. For the place I really have to get to is a place I must already be at now. Anything that I might reach by climbing a ladder does not interest me.

Philosophy, as we use the word, is a fight against the fascination which forms of expression exert upon us.