#genius

There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. ↗

— Antonin Artaud

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Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

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Freud was a genius; geniuses are bright but not necessarily right. What they do do, right or wrong, is to provide images that guide, or compel, the lives of the rest of us. If we are not careful we may accept the inevitability of these images. It seems that great men offer us a portion of reality and, because of their greatness, we take it for the whole. ↗

— Peter Redgrove

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In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can. ↗

— Maurice Baring

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Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. ↗

— Pierre Beaumarchais

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Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles. ↗

— Stanley Jordan

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T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary. ↗

— Betty Buckley

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What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts. ↗

— Italo Calvino

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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

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