Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant–so that he constantly called different things by that name–but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of ‘pain’–in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism .Ludwig Wittgenstein
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The greatest joy in life is not winning, but creating. The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Our ability to create and reinvent ourselves determines the quality of our lives.
Source: Philosophical Investigations
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