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"It is difficult to describe paths of thought where there are already many paths laid down, and not fall into one of the grooves."
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"You walk like others? You talk like others? You think like others? Then the world doesn't need you because others are already abundant in the world! Be original!"
"Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing."
"Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism."
"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
"No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted."
"She was strangely unaware that she could look and see freshly for herself, as she wrote, without primary regard for what had been said before."
"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
"When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality."
Explore more quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein
"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.""
"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."
"Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again."
"Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness."
"The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to. The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question."
"Propositions show what they say: tautologies and contradictions show that they say nothing."
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