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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

—Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation (1818)
Category: PhilosophyMood: PhilosophicalTags: #genius #talent #vision #creativity
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Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

—William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Category: PsychologyMood: BoldTags: #genius #perception #originality #creativity
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In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
Category: Self-Reliance & SovereigntyMood: ReflectiveTags: #ralph-waldo-emerson #genius #intuition #self-trust #creativity
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Every thought which genius thinketh, he might think; had other men but thought it before, he would have thought it also.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Over-Soul
Category: Consciousness & TruthMood: PhilosophicalTags: #ralph-waldo-emerson #genius #universal-mind #truth #consciousness
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There is no genius without a touch of madness.

—Seneca, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters)
Category: WisdomMood: BoldTags: #genius #creativity #madness #individuality
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