Main > Quotations > Genius
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.
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Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
Longfellow
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The case with most men is that they go out into life with one or another accidental characteristic of personality of which they say: Well, this is the way I am. I cannot do otherwise. Then the world gets to work on them and thus the majority of men are ground into conformity. In each generation a small part cling to their "I cannot do otherwise" and lose their minds. Finally there are a very few in each generation who in spite of all life's terrors cling with more and more inwardness to this "I cannot do otherwise". They are the geniuses. Their "I cannot do otherwise" is an infinite thought, for if one were to cling firmly to a finite thought, he would lose his mind.
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.
Kierkegaard
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A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Joey Adams
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Genius is born, not paid.
Oscar Wilde
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Genius borrows nobly.
R.W Emerson
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Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them.
R.W Emerson
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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
Samuel T. Coleridge
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Genius is not so much about new ideas as it is about clarity of ideas. Two people can have the same idea yet it will be genius in the one and mediocrity in the other.
Kevin Solway
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Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein
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To see things in the seed, that is genius.
Lao-tzu
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Main > Quotations > Woman
Remove the invisible conduits and metaphorical tubing attached to your brain, that drains your life, your essence, your energy as surely and as effectively as any fictional vampire.
-- Dave Sim
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Main > Quotations > Woman
Man has no inkling of the extreme egotism in her devotedness; he considers himself very lucky and feels highly flattered to be the object of such fervent devotion; which always takes the form of submission, perhaps because woman has a bad conscience about it, wondering if it is not really egotism.
--- Kierkegaard
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. . . There is a moment in her life when she deceptively appears to be infinitude itself - and that is when man is captured. And as a wife she is quite simply - finitude.
--- Kierkegaard
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She avoids having a conscience about her weaknesses by convincing herself that all things are too difficult to fight. Bowing and crumbling beneath all things serves the purpose admirably.
--- Kevin Solway
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Woman is not to blame for her thoughtlessness and superficiality, because when she does make a stand she is punished by society for not fitting her expected role and despised by men for her incompetence. She faces countless defeats and enormous pressures in the exercise of thought - no wonder she rarely tries.
--- Kevin Solway
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A woman will study philosophy for months to impress a man, without understanding a word of it. If she truly is interested in philosophy, it is only to find an all-powerful doctrine to submit herself to, and within which she can enthrone herself.
-- Kevin Solway
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The female ego is simple, with few dependencies, so when one of these dependencies does fail she is plunged into dire trouble. When her armour collapses, it collapses totally. The many safety supports that men have at their disposal are not her's. Nor does she have man's experience at carrying a burden of pain. Therefore she is expert at coping with things that fall within her sphere of submission, but she fails spectacularly when forced "outside".
--- Kevin Solway
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Main > Quotations
A long-standing myth among humans is that it is easier to correct someone else. It is easier to criticise someone else.
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Main > Quotations > Woman
There are two types of interactions:
Levelling ('We women stick up for each other'), and
Scandal ('Truth Alone.')
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Main > Quotations > Christianity
We believe that it is the Holy Spirit that has helped Christianity to spread, so that now we are all Christians --- God in heaven! The true situation is that it happened because the Spirit has departed --- and thus the phenomenon of diffusion is easily explained, for diffusion and lack of Spirit go together.
- Soren Kierkegaard
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Main > Quotations > Genius
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent - the power to do the right thing the first time.
Elbert Hubbard
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