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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
"Oftentimes in reality, the genius is in the position of the antihero. Neither the good guys nor the bad guys really trust him because his truth is universal."
"In order to share one's true brilliance one initially has to risk looking like a fool: genius is like a wheel that spins so fast, it at first glance appears to be sitting still."
"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."
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"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."
"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."
"Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious."
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
"Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning."
"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
"Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up."
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