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"Common sense is genius in homespun."
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"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
Experience
"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."
History
"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."
Wisdom
"It is in literature that the concrete outlook of humanity receives its expression."
Expression
"Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains."
Thought
"Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious."
Mankind
"Seek simplicity but distrust it."
Distrust
"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them."
Civilization
"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
Tradition
"Ideas won't keep; something must be done about them."
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"This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist."
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"When we allow the genius of simple nature to flow through us we become every genius who has ever lived."
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"Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent."
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"Out there, there is some kinda genius person... I am talking about Sherlock Holmes... First very fast talking + in the same full of knowledge."
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"Genius without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
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"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
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"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
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"If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators."
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"Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way."
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"A genius is a grownup that remained a kid."
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