A quote by Jean-Paul Sartre

“One admires a genius because one has the imagination to see that there is no ‘mechanism’ in him or his work, nothing that can be analyzed and rationalized”

Jacques Barzun

“And then, again, the more distinctly a man knows, the more intelligent he is, the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer , “The World as Will and Representation”

For most of human history, a genius was born, lived, and died, and no one knew a thing about him or her; today’s technology changes that