“What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.”

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Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook E (1775 - 1776)

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German scientist, satirist 1742–1799

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