Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of potential for the eye which, everyoung and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints possibility never.Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
God does not think he creates. He does not exist he is eternal.
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I divide my time as follows half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius.
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Genius never desires what does not exist.
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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase the greater the degree of consciousness, the more intensive the despair. This is everywhere apparent, most clearly in despair at its maximum and minimum. The devil's despair is the most intensive despair, for the devil is sheer spirit and hence unqualified consciousness and transparency there is no obscurity in the devil that could serve as a mitigating excuse. Therefore, his despair is the most absolute defiance....
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