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Georg Christoph Lichtenberg on Intelligence

1742–1799 Germany

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There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Aphorisms (1765)

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.

Aphorisms (1765)

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