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"Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought."
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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 - the pursuit of madness."
"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
"Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble."
"A genius does what he masters. An ordinary man tries to master what he does."
"Of all the things in the world, I'm particularly amazed at, is the conviction with which the MIND, endorses an Idea, which is phenomenal, as it differentiates the Genius from Mediocre, or not to forget the human stupidity in particular!"
"The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated."
"Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius."
"Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles."
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"In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs."
"For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation."
"It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down."
"When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door."
"Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it."
"What a country calls its vital... interests are not things that help its people live, but things that help it make war."
"A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams."
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