Genius · Skopia

Quotes

19

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Absalom and Achitophel · 1681

★ 6.9

Philosophical literature

The man of talent is like the marksman who hits a mark the others cannot hit; the man of genius is like the marksman who hits a mark they cannot even see.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The World as Will and Idea · 1819

★ 6.9

Philosophical literature

One must have chaos inside oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra · 1883

★ 5.6

Genius without Education is like Silver in the Mine.

Benjamin Franklin

1750

★ 5.5

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Books

3

The Loser

Thomas Bernhard

1983★ 6.8

Subtle Is the Lord

1982★ 6.5

But Beautiful

1991★ 6.2