 Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 |
There is a comfortable doctrine that genius will always make its way, and on the strength of this doctrine many people consider that the persecution of youthful talent cannot do much harm. ... all the men of genius that we have ever heard of have triumphed over adverse circumstances, but that is no reason for supposing that there were not innumerable others who succumbed in youth.
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Conquest of Happiness. chapt. 9
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