#genius

The cult of individuality and personality, which promotes painters and poets only to promote itself, is really a business. The greater the 'genius' of the personage, the greater the profit. ↗

— George Grosz

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There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people. ↗

— Paul Harris

#application #genius #more #nothing #our

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#force #genius #his #human #insignificance

Rules and models destroy genius and art. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#destroy #genius #models #rules

Dandyism is a variety of genius. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#variety

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#humanity #like #rusts #use #want

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#because #excel #genius #people #profession

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#assimilation #contact #fiction #genius #great

It will work. I am a marketing genius. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#genius #i #i am #marketing #will

The turmoil and dislocations confronting present-day society will not be solved until both the scientific and religious genius of the human race are fully utilized. ↗

— Baha'i International Community

#bahai #genius #human #peace #religion