Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in…

Simone Weil
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought. ✨ Simone Weil (2015). Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers
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