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13558539 No.13558539 [Reply] [Original]

itt post the geniuses throughout history. also fyi the word genius should be used sparingly and that someone may be great but not a genius. for exampie, Nietzsche was great but not a genius.

Wiliam Shakespeare
Dante Alighieri
John Milton
Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Alfred North Whitehead
Samuel Beckett

>> No.13558563

>>13558539
shakespeare was illiterate, was neither mystical nor well read and he had an entire company that wrote for him, known for plagarism too

>> No.13558574

Montaigne

>> No.13558596

Nietzsche > Whitehead and Platon
Deal with it

I'm a baguette fag so i will add :

Rimbaud
La Fontaine
Pascal
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
La Rochefoucauld