Quotes About Genius

Is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

No es una muestra de genialidad buscar un atajo al corazón?

Il disait ce qu'il pensait, et jugeait perturbant que son interlocuteur n'en fasse pas autant. Certains auraient pu se méprendre et le trouver simplet. Mais ceux qui vont toujours directement au cœur des choses ne possèdent-ils pas une sorte de génie?

said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. Some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

he said what he meant; he was puzzled if you did not. some people might have mistaken this for simplicity. but is it not a sort of genius to always cut to the heart?

El príncipe decía lo que pensaba y se sorprendía cuando tú no lo hacías. Algunas personas habrían tomado esta actitud como una muestra de simplicidad, pero ¿no es una muestra de genialidad buscar un atajo al corazón?

But is it not a sort of genius to cut always to the heart?

Ma non è una caratteristica del genio andare sempre dritto al cuore?

On April 20, 1970, the poet Paul Celan left his home in Paris, walked to a bridge over the River Seine, and jumped to his death. He left a biography of Hölderlin open on his desk, with the following words underlined: "Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart." The sentence does not end there. Celan chose not to underline the rest: "but mostly his apocalyptic star glitters wondrously.

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Perhaps this was the greatest genius of the cyber jihadis: the monopoly they clinched on information. They realized how helplessly addicted the population had become to knowing in this information age. So what if news was tainted or unreliable? - people needed their daily fix.

C'est sidérant ! Comment fais-tu pour lire autant et rester aussi con ? - Hé hé ! C'est là tout mon génie !

Du känner till det där med yin och yang, och krona eller klave? Du kommer snart att fatta vart jag vill komma. Vet du att de två pajasarna som uppfann föregångaren till mobilen du har i handen började i ett garage där de använde sig av defekta komponenter från skroten på en stor flygindustri? Var de lumpsamlare eller genier?

All the great things we know have come to us from neurotics. It is they and only they who have founded religions and created great works of art.

Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.

genius, having the widest experience of the human intelligence, can best understand the ideas most directly in opposition to those which form the foundation of its own works.

those who produce works of genius are not those who spend their days in the most refined company...or whose culture is the broadest; they are those who have the ability to stop living for themselves and make a mirror of their personality, so that their lives, however nondescript they may be, are reflected in it.

But the true nature which we repress continues nevertheless to abide within us. Thus it is that at times, if we read the latest masterpiece of a man of genius, we are delighted to find in it all those of our own reflexions which we have despised, joys and sorrows which we have repressed, a whole world of feelings we have scorned, and whose value the book in which we discover them afresh suddenly teaches us.

My grandmother had a love which found in me so totally its complement, its goal, its constant lodestar, that the genius of great men, all the genius that might ever have existed from the beginning of the world, would have been less precious to my grandmother than a single one of my defects.

The lonely mountains o'er, And the resounding shore, A voice of weeping heard and loud lament; From haunted spring, and dale Edged with poplar pale, The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn.

The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, kid.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

They could get it, Doc said. They could ruin their lives and get money. Mack has qualities of genius. They're all very clever if they want something. They just know the nature of things too well to be caught in wanting.

If I could do this book properly it would be one of the really fine books and a truly American book. But I am assailed with my own ignorance and inability. i'll just have to work from a background of these. Honesty. If I can keep an honesty it is all I can expect of my poor brain.... If I can do that it will be all my lack of genius can produce. For no else knows my lack of ability the way I do. I am pushing against it all the time.