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Cesare Lombroso

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Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.


— Cesare Lombroso


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Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.


— Cesare Lombroso


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Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'


— Cesare Lombroso


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The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.


— Cesare Lombroso


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The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.


— Cesare Lombroso


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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.


— Cesare Lombroso


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Lombroso's research methods were clinical and descriptive with precise details of skull dimension and other measurements. However it was not until 1900 that his work was publiCesare Lombrosod in English. See also
Anthropological criminology
Arnold Aletrino
Family studies in eugenics.

Instead using concepts drawn from physiognomy early eugenics psychiatry and Social Darwinism Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical defects which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic. Lombroso rejected the establiCesare Lombrosod Classical School which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature. Cesare Lombroso born Ezechia Marco Lombroso (Italian: [ˈtʃɛzare lombˈroso]; 6 November 1835 – 19 October 1909) was an Italian criminologist physician and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology.

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