“That books do not take the place of experience, and that lea…”

“That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena; their common ground is that the abstract can never take the place of the perceptive.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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E. Payne, trans., Vol. II, Ch. 7, p. 74

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