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"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
"I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control."
"Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
"A genius is a grown-up that did not grow up."
"Genius - the pursuit of madness."
"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."
"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
Explore more quotes by Denis Diderot
"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."
"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."
"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."
"We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves."
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