"The characteristic mark of minds of the first rank is the immediacy of all… "The characteristic mark of minds of the first rank is the immediacy of all their judgements. Everything they produce is the result of thinking for themselves and already in the way it is spoken everywhere announces itself as such. He who truly thinks for himself is like a monarch, in that he recognizes no one over him. His judgements, like the decisions of a monarch, arise directly from his own absolute power."— https://writing.exchange/tags/Schopenhauer https://writing.exchange/@bryankam/113412822714382076