"When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote"
"There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man - but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point."
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Source: Culture and Value by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 41e), 1980.
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