E. Payne, trans. (1974) Vol. 1, p. 348
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life
“We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy — at least until we have become as clever as they are.”
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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook D (1773-1775)
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