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One might say: Genius is talent exercised with courage.
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Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words.
You say : The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.
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Humour is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humour was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
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True, the initial ideas are in general those of an individual, but the establishment of the reality and truth is in general the work of more than one person.
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April 26, 1889
Died:
April 29, 1951
(aged 62)
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