Genius Quotes
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The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.
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Could we teach taste or genius by rules, they would be no longer taste and genius.
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Genius creates from the heart and when men put love into their work there is power in it, there is a soul in the body.
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Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
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For creation is not a change, but that dependence of the created existence on the principle from which it is instituted, and thus is of the genus of relation; whence nothing prohibits it being in the created as in the subject. Creation is thus said to be a kind of change, according to the way of understanding, insofar as our intellect accepts one and the same thing as not existing before and afterwards existing.
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Don't dissipate your powers; strive to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but it will surely repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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It seems to me that even the least of the human race is touched with genius when mad with love.
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Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
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A great composition to me is.. an incarnation of a genius, of all that was ever in him of the slightest consequence.
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For a long time I found myself calling so many things "genius." Sometimes you mean it literally and sometimes it's the opposite, but either way it is so heavy and has so much meaning.
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Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.
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The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.
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Deep inside all of us a huge potential beckons, waiting to open us to the joy, genius, freedom and Love within.
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Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
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A taste is subtle sense and the genius is a sublime mind.
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When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
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A cretin can kill you just as efficiently as a genius, and usually a whole lot quicker because a cretin has no conscience.
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Talk not of genius baffled. Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can.
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Genius is fine for the ignition spark, but to get there someone has to see that the radiator doesn't leak and no tire is flat.
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Genius is an intellect that has become unfaithful to its destiny.
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Hats off, gentlemen - a genius! If the mighty autocrat of the north knew what a dangerous enemy threatened him in Chopin's works in the simple tunes of his mazurkas, he would forbid this music. Chopin's works are canons buried in flowers.
