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

'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.

A confession has to be part of your new life.

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?

A philosopher always finds more grass to feed upon in the valleys of stupidity than on the arid heights of intelligence.

A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.

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.