Cesare Lombroso Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses”
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“Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.”
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“It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.”
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“Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.”
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“God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.”
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“The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand”
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“Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'”
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“The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities”
-- Cesare Lombroso
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