- It has no meaning to say that a game has always been played wrong.
- The limits of my language are the limits of my World.
- Of which we cannot speak, we must pass over in silence.
- Make the following experiment: say "It's cold here" and mean "It's warm here". Can you do it? - And what are you doing as you do it? And is there only one way of doing it?
- What gives us so much as the idea that living beings, things, can feel? Is it that my education has led me to it by drawing my attention to feelings in myself, and now I transfer the idea to objects outside myself? That I recognize that there is something there (in me) which I can call "pain" without getting into conflict with the way other people use this word? - I do not transfer my idea to stones, plants, etc. Couldn't I imagine having frightful pains and turning to stone while they lasted? Well, how do I know, if I shut my eyes, whether I have not turned into a stone? And if that has happened, in what sense will the stone have the pains? In what sense will they be ascribable to the stone? And why need the pain have a bearer at all here?! And can one say of the stone that it has a soul and that is what has the pain? What has a soul, or pain, to do with a stone? Only of what behaves like a human being can one say that it has pains.
- Is what we call "obeying a rule" something that it would be possible for only one man to do, and to do only once in his life? - This is of course a note on the grammar of the expression "to obey a rule". It is not possible that there should have been only one occasion on which someone obeyed a rule. It is not possible that there should have been only one occasion on which a report was made, an order given or understood; and so on. - To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs (uses, institutions).
- That which can be shown can not be said.
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