Heinrich Heine Quote

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.


As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 6


Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.