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title: "30 Ifs Quotes By Ludwig Wittgenstein"
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> [If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-people-did-not-sometimes-do-silly-things-nothing-intelligent-would/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-we-spoke-a-different-language-we-would-perceive-a-somewhat/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-you-use-a-trick-in-logic-whom-can-you-be-tricking-other-than/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If a false thought is so much as expressed boldly and clearly, a great deal has already been gained.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-a-false-thought-is-so-much-as-expressed-boldly-and-clearly-a-great/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If the will did not exist, neither would there be that centre of the world, which we call the I.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-the-will-did-not-exist-neither-would-there-be-that-centre-of-the/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If God had looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-god-had-looked-into-our-minds-he-would-not-have-been-able-to-see/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [A color which would be 'dirty' if it were the color of a wall, needn't be so in a painting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/a-color-which-would-be-dirty-if-it-were-the-color-of-a-wall-needn-t/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If in life we are surrounded by death, so too in the health of our intellect by madness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-in-life-we-are-surrounded-by-death-so-too-in-the-health-of-our/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [A proposition is completely logically analyzed if its grammar is made completely clear: no matter what idiom it may be written or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/a-proposition-is-completely-logically-analyzed-if-its-grammar-is-made/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [In the world everything is as it is and happens as it does happen. In it, there is no value, - and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/in-the-world-everything-is-as-it-is-and-happens-as-it-does-happen-in/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-a-person-tells-me-he-has-been-to-the-worst-places-i-have-no-reason/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/telling-someone-something-he-does-not-understand-is-pointless-even-if/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [Talent is a spring from which fresh water always flows.- But this spring is worthless if no good use is made of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/talent-is-a-spring-from-which-fresh-water-always-flows-but-this/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-for-example-you-were-to-think-more-deeply-about-death-then-it-2/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If we were to imagine an orange on the blue side or green on the red side or violet on the yellow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-we-were-to-imagine-an-orange-on-the-blue-side-or-green-on-the-red/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [Black seems to make a colour cloudy, but darkness doesn't. A ruby could thus keep getting darker without ever becoming cloudy; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/black-seems-to-make-a-colour-cloudy-but-darkness-doesn-t-a-ruby-could/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [It would strike me as ridiculous to want to doubt the existence of Napoleon; but if someone doubted the existence of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/it-would-strike-me-as-ridiculous-to-want-to-doubt-the-existence-of/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [The truth of the thoughts that are here set forth seems to me unassailable and definitive. I therefore believe myself to have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/the-truth-of-the-thoughts-that-are-here-set-forth-seems-to-me/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/suppose-someone-follows-the-series-1-3-5-7-and-in-writing-the-series/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [When we think about the future of the world, we always have in mind its being where it would be if it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/when-we-think-about-the-future-of-the-world-we-always-have-in-mind/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [I might say: if the place I want to get to could only be reached by way of a ladder, I would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/i-might-say-if-the-place-i-want-to-get-to-could-only-be-reached-by/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/no-one-likes-having-offended-another-person-hence-everyone-feels-so/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If suicide is allowed then everything is allowed. If anything is not allowed then suicide is not allowed. This throws a light…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-suicide-is-allowed-then-everything-is-allowed-if-anything-is-not/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [What makes a subject difficult to understand — if it is significant, important — is not that some special instruction about abstruse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/what-makes-a-subject-difficult-to-understand-if-it-is-significant/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [Idealism leads to realism if it is strictly thought out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/idealism-leads-to-realism-if-it-is-strictly-thought-out/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [What is left over if I subtract the fact that my arms goes up from the fact that I raise my arm?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/what-is-left-over-if-i-subtract-the-fact-that-my-arms-goes-up-from/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-you-want-to-go-down-deep-you-do-not-need-to-travel-far-indeed-you/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/a-religious-symbol-does-not-rest-on-any-opinion-and-error-belongs/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/could-one-imagine-a-stone-s-having-consciousness-and-if-anyone-can-do/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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> [If life becomes hard to bear we think of a change in our circumstances. But the most important and effective change, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-life-becomes-hard-to-bear-we-think-of-a-change-in-our/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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## Other authors on Ifs

## More by Ludwig Wittgenstein

> [“But some of the greatest achievements in philosophy could only be compared with taking up some books which seemed to belong together, and putting…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/but-some-of-the-greatest-achievements-in-philosophy-could-only-be/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [What can be shown, cannot be said.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/what-can-be-shown-cannot-be-said/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [“This is connected with the conception of naming as a process that is, so to speak, occult. Naming seems to be a \_strange\_ connection…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/this-is-connected-with-the-conception-of-naming-as-a-process-that-is/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/if-a-lion-could-talk-we-could-not-understand-him/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [White must be the lightest color in a picture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/white-must-be-the-lightest-color-in-a-picture/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [Freud's fanciful pseudo-explanations (precisely because they are brilliant) perform a disservice. Now any ass has these pictures available to use in "explaining" symptoms of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/freud-s-fanciful-pseudo-explanations-precisely-because-they-are/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/in-order-to-be-able-to-set-a-limit-to-thought-we-should-have-to-find/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [A teacher who can show good, or indeed astounding results while he is teaching, is still not on that account a good teacher, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/a-teacher-who-can-show-good-or-indeed-astounding-results-while-he-is/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/one-often-makes-a-remark-and-only-later-sees-how-true-it-is/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [Where does our investigation get its importance from, since it seems only to destroy everything interesting, that is, all that is great and important?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/where-does-our-investigation-get-its-importance-from-since-it-seems/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [There is such a thing as the impression of luminosity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/there-is-such-a-thing-as-the-impression-of-luminosity/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/death-is-not-an-event-in-life-we-do-not-live-to-experience-death-if/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/i-once-wrote-in-mathematics-process-and-result-are-equivalent/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine but an activity. A philosophical work consists essentially of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/philosophy-aims-at-the-logical-clarification-of-thoughts-philosophy/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

> [“It is clear that ethics cannot be expressed. Ethics are transcendental. (Ethics and æsthetics are one.)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-wittgenstein/it-is-clear-that-ethics-cannot-be-expressed-ethics-are-transcendental/)

[Ludwig Wittgenstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-wittgenstein/)

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