Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.

I've never been resigned to ready-made ideas as I was to ready-made clothes, perhaps because although I couldn't sew, I could think.

A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.

He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

Students must have initiative; they should not be mere imitators. They must learn to think and act for themselves - and be free.

I'm against fashionable thinking.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

I'm not following anybody's tracks, I'm making my own baby.

The supreme lesson of any education should be to think for yourself and to be yourself; absent this attainment, education creates dangerous, stupefying conformity.

But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them.

In Ministry, we've only had one message: Think for yourself.

Think for yourself and question authority.

I don't believe in other people's ideas. I have my own ideas.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of 'crackpot' than the stigma of conformity.

A thinking man can never be a party man.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

Well as I say, don't believe everything that you read and don't be afraid to think and it is alright to understand what has gone before but don't just rely on copying but develop your internal voice and your own internal means of interpreting.

I want to stay away from trends and do what we want to do musically.

I'm very much a person of free thought.

Take the risk of thinking for yourself

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

I don't believe anything really revolutionary has ever been invented by committee... I'm going to give you some advice that might be hard to take. That advice is: Work alone... Not on a committee. Not on a team.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.