Quote #113
Talent hits a target no-one else can hit; genius hits targets no-one else can see.
More from Arthur Schopenhauer
- Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
- The less a man is forced to come into contact with others, the better off he is.
- Reason is feminine in nature: it will give only after it has received.
- The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general and when only its most significant features are emphasised, is really a trag…
- Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.
- There is no opinion, however absurd, which men will not readily embrace as soon as they can be brought to the conviction that it is general…
- Life nowadays goes at a gallop; and the way in which this affects literature is to make it extremely superficial and slovenly.
- Ultimately, death must triumph, for by birth it has already become our lot and it plays with its prey only for a while before swallowing it…