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"Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine."
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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 without wisdom is like a plane without wings, it will navigate the runway but it will never know the sky."
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts, they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"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."
"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."
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"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship."
"If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart."
"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society."
"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination."
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