The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

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Creativity Self-doubt

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Sylvia Plath

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Letters of Sylvia Plath

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English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

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United States

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Plath, Sylvia. Letter to unknown recipient. June or July 1953.

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What is your aim in philosophy?-To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Philosophical Investigations

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Ludwig Wittgenstein
Source
Philosophical Investigations
Genre
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophische Untersuchungen [Philosophical Investigations]. Suhrkamp, 1953, pt. 1.

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Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, translated by G. E. M. Anscombe, et. al., edited by P. M. S. Hacker and Joachim Schulte. Wiley Blackwell, 2009, pt. 1.

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Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi

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Discovery Originality Creativity
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Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
Language
English
Time
1962 1960s 20th century
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Szent-Gyorgyi, Albert. Quoted in The Scientist Speculates: An Anthology of Partly-Baked Ideas, written by Irving John Good. Heinemann, 1962, ch. 1, sect. 6.