I am not interested in constructing a building, so much as in having a perspicuous view of the foundations of possible buildings.

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.

Nothing is more important for teaching us to understand the concepts we have than to construct fictitious ones.

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

We regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without color and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

It is not humanly possible to gather immediately from it what the logic of language is. Language disguises thought.

Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.