A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument —

A man of intellect is like an artist who gives a concert without any help from anyone else, playing on a single instrument — a piano, say, which is a little orchestra in itself. Such a man is a little world in himself; and the effect produced by various instruments together, he produces single-handed, in the unity of his own consciousness.

_Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims_

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