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“For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.”
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“Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.”
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“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”
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“One of the most misleading representational techniques in our language is the use of the word 'I.'”
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“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world”
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“If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative”
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“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”
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“You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.”
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“You must always be puzzled by mental illness. The thing I would dread most, if I became mentally ill, would be your adopting a common sense attitude; that you could take it for granted that I was deluded.”
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“Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.”
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“It is a dogma of the Roman Church that the existence of God can be proved by natural reason. Now this dogma would make it impossible for me to be a Roman Catholic. If I thought of God as another being like myself, outside myself, only infinitely more powerful, then I would regard it as my duty to defy him.”
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