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. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)

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.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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