“[T]he great genie, the granter of wishes—God, in a microcosm—is archetypally trapped in the tiny confines of a lamp and subject, as well, to the will of the lamp’s current holder. Genie—genius—is the combination of possibility and potential, and extreme constraint.”

—  Jordan Peterson , book Beyond Order

Source: Books, Beyond Order (2021), pp. 35–36

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