“The
common assumption that to grasp a theory one need
only be sufficiently intelligent is misplaced.
Over and again… men of the highest intelligence
fall into an imaginative, not an intellectual,
shortcoming in the way they fail to grasp a theory,
or in the point-missing way they criticize it;
indeed this happens only too often to every one
of us.”
- Bryan Magee, The Philosophy
of Schopenhauer, p81
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