Cesare Lombroso quotes
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“Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses”
-- Cesare LombrosoSource : "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1985.
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“Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.”
-- Cesare LombrosoSource : "Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.
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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.”
-- Cesare LombrosoSource : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres
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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.”
-- Cesare LombrosoSource : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.7, Litres
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“God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.”
-- Cesare LombrosoSource : The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)
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“The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand”
-- Cesare LombrosoSource : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.228, Litres
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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.'”
-- Cesare LombrosoSource : The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)
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“The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities”
-- Cesare LombrosoSource : Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.116, Litres
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.”
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“I wouldn't say jamie is an evil genius. I'm not sure he's evil and I'm not sure he's a genius.”
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“Every new invention has been a protest of genius against the masses.”
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“Highly developed spirits often encounter resistance from mediocre minds.”
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