"Oh, I know what 'pain' means; what I don't know is whether this, that I have now, is pain."

But isn't it absurd to say of a body that it has pain? -- And why does one feel absurdity in that? In what sense is it true that my hand does not feel pain, but in my hand?

"If one has to imagine someone else's pain on the model of one's own, this is none too easy a thing to do: for I have to imagine pain which I do not feel on the model of the pain which I do feel. That is, what I have to do is not simply to make a transition in imagination from one place of pain to another.."

"Pity, one may say, is a form of conviction that someone else is in pain."

"The impression that we wanted to deny something arises from our setting our faces against the picture of the 'inner process'. What we deny is that the picture of the inner process gives us the correct idea of the use of the word 'to remember'."