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Arthur Schopenhauer1788–1860

That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.

Arthur Schopenhauer on genius

The World as Will and Representation, vol. 2, ch. 7 (trans. E. F. J. Payne), p. 74

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