Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.
There are two kinds of geniuses. The characteristic of the one is roaring, but the lightning is meagre and rarely strikes the other kind is characterized by reflection by which it constrains itself or restrains the roaring. But the lightning is all the more intense with the speed and sureness of lightning it hits the selected particular points and is fatal.
Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fair water.
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully fostered by the inferiority complex of the public.
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser Iscariots than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.
Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.
Persons of genius, and those who are most capable of art, are always most fond of nature as such are chiefly sensible, that all art consists in the imitation and study of nature.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
If I had to characterize one quality as the genius of feminist thought, culture, and action, it would be the connectivity.
I remember one game we played and the team was pressing us and I had him bringing the ball up the court. A fellow coach, a friend of mine called me and said, 'Either you're a genius or you're crazy. How do you have a 6-10 freshman bringing the ball up the court Don't you realize that every NBA team will see that
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.
The true Axis of Evil in America is the genius of our marketing combined with the stupidity of our people.
The only folk I can judge are people like Woody Allen who I think is a genius, largely because I think he has beaten the system. He has his own company, and his films are all his own ideas. It's his direction, and so it comes out the way he imagined it.
Common sense is as rare as genius, - is the basis of genius
Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish.
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.
I truly miss the genius of the music of John Lennon, as I'm sure everybody does.
The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
The first and last thing required of genius is the love of truth.
What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.
Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.
But I must say I am happiest when something hits and I've written it with Barry. After all these years, I am still amazed by his genius.
Have all these countries found a genius like Greenspan ... What the foreign experience suggests is, you don't need a genius. You just need someone willing to make fighting inflation his top priority.
It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel.
Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.
Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.
Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.
The three indispensables of genius are understanding, feeling, and perseverance. The three things that enrich genius are contentment of mind, the cherishing of good thoughts, And exercising the memory.
Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Our mission is to inspire the inventive genius in everyone. Leonardo is the poster child for inventive genius. And while maybe there's no one else like him in the sense that he encompassed all disciplines, there are a lot of inventors today who are crossing disciplines.
He does some unbelievable things. He does things I've never seen anybody else do. He has that little bit of genius.
The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.
Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius like Mr. Dalton's, to be employed in the drudgery of elementary instruction.
Oh, wondrous power how little understood, Entrusted to the mothers mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington. (Sarah Josepha
As far as me knowing if Frank was a genius - in those days, I thought Einstein was the only genius around.
Only a man who has loved a woman of genius can appreciate what happiness there is in loving a fool.
Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all.
What a singular destiny has been that of this remarkable man To be regarded in his own age as a classic, and in ours as a companion To receive from his contemporaries that full homage which men of genius have in general received only from posterity to be more intimately known to posterity than other men are known to their contemporaries.
Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
Genius, in one respect, is like gold numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
The modes of expression of men of genius differ as much as their souls, and it is impossible to say that in some among them, drawing and color are better or worse than in others.
Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.
Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
I try to figure this team out, and if I could, I'd be a genius. We're all swinging the bats well at the same time, or we're all not swinging the bats well at the same time.
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