#genius

Genius, in spite of vulgar conception, is a condition of chaos and unutterable restlessness. Not for nothing has genius

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Even men of genius cannot keep up the creative activity to the last. As soon as they have acquired their technique, they

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All men saved from the scattering influences of society by a powerful incentive, a cause, or an ideal of individual perfection,...

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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man. If he

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Genius is a wretched, blind maniac, whose eccentricities are condoned because of what is got from him.

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Genius must submit to cultivate an ass within itself — the condition being so humiliating that man will seldom take up the

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The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

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Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention

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Genius is the ability to act wisely without precedent — the power to do the right thing the first time. A capacity for

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Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.

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There is a supreme lucidity, which is the precisely calculated awareness which is called madness.

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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius.

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Philosophy becomes poetry and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.

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That books do not take the place of experience, and that learning is no substitute for genius, are two kindred phenomena;

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There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now

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Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick, and reality into

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The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest incident becomes imbued with great significance.

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It’s the central error of the literary imagination to suppose that others are like us and must feel as we do. Fortunately

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