#genius

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

#equality #exceptions #geniuses #idiots #men

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

#genius #men

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

#contrast #does #genius #mozart #must

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

#believe #born #genius #great #great genius

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

— Stanley Jordan

#circles #genius #musical #often #too

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

— Betty Buckley

#extraordinary #genius #instrumentation #quite #really

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

#empirically #finding #following #genius #inspiration

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

#brutish #form #genius #goes #great

العبقري يخترق حجاب المألوف .. ويخرج من أسْر العادة .! ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#intelligence #thinking-with-a-great-mind #intelligence

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#business #few #genius #i #legend