Margaret Fuller (1810–1850) American feminist, poet, author, and activist
"The Modern Drama" in Art, Literature and the Drama (1858).
“Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. … The theory of special genius, according to which for instance, it is supposed that a musical genius should be a fool at other subjects, confuses genius with talent. … There are many kinds of talent, but only one kind of genius, and that is able to choose any kind of talent and master it.”
— Otto Weininger, book Sex and Character
Source: Sex and Character (1903), p. 112.
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