"Genius is an intellect that has become..." - Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself; because only through ordering what you know by comparing every truth with every other truth can you take complete possession of your knowledge and get it into your power. You can think about only what you know, so you ought to learn something; on the other hand, you can know only what you have thought about.”

“Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.”

“We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully andwillingly give up life itself.”

“The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward.”

“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”

“When a real genius appeares in this world, you'll know him by the fact that all the fools have allied against him.”

“O my Bergson, you are a magician, and your book is a marvel, a real wonder in the history of philosophy . . . In finishing it I found . . . such a flavor of persistent euphony, as of a rich river that never foamed or ran thin, but steadily and firmly proceeded with its banks full to the brim.”

“Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”