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116, 118 124

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116 “When philosophers use a word—‘knowledge’, ‘being’, ‘object’, ‘I’, ‘proposition’, ‘name’—and try to grasp the essence of the thing, one must ask oneself; is the word ever actually used in this way in the language which is its original home?—

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.”

118 We are destroying nothing but “houses of cards” in our studies.

124 “Philosophy may in no way interfere with the actual use of language; it can in the end only describe it.”

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130, 133

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-130 “Our clear and simple language-games are not preparatory studies for a future regularization of language—as it were first approximations ignoring friction and air- resistance. The language-games are rather set up as objects of comparison which are meant to throw light on the facts of our language by way not only of similarities, but also of dissimilarities.”

133 “The real discovery is the one that makes me capable of stopping doing philosophy when I want to.—The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself in question.”

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254-5

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§254-5: remarks on the nature of philosophy- it deals with ‘what we are tempted to say’ as its raw material, and tries to give a “psychologically accurate” account of such.
“The philosopher treats a question; like an illness.”

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