Genius is not cleverness. Schopenhauer says: 'A man can be a genius without having produced anything at all.' And he is right. The genius is the one who has vision.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein Modern

Philosophy of language

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c. 1930s-1940s

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https://books.google.com/books?id=yNnCAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA43e

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