Genius consists in the capacity for knowing independently of the principle of sufficient reason, and hence for knowing not individual things (which have their existence only in their relations) but the Idea of such things, and of being in relation to these things oneself the correlative of the Idea, and thus no longer an individual, but the pure subject of knowing.
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Idea, Book Three
Matthew Frye-Castillo 