Quote #40

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. (p. 45)

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  1. But ordinary language is all right. (p. 28)
  2. What I give is the morphology of the use of an expression. I show that it has kinds of uses of which you had not dreamed. In philosophy one…
  3. What should we gain by a definition, as it can only lead us to other undefined terms? (p. 26)
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  5. For remember that in general we don't use language according to strict rules - it hasn't been taught us by means of strict rules, either. (…
  6. The problems are dissolved in the actual sense of the word - like a lump of sugar in water. (p.183)
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  8. The aim of philosophy is to erect a wall at the point where language stops anyway. (p.187)

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