#genius

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius. ↗

— Otto Weininger

#longer #madness #runs #which

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

Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius. ↗

— Henry Adams

#genius #highest #susceptibility

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#except #genius #living #make #who