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"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
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"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."
"There is nothing in the genius of America more precious today than the spirit of religious and political tolerance in its application to our own people."
"Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them."
"It is the genius of our Constitution that under its shelter of enduring institutions and rooted principles there is ample room for the rich fertility of American political invention."
"Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien."
"Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes."
"Sometimes an act of common sense is indistinguishable from an act of genius."
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
"Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways. But the good artists who follow after genius - and I count myself among these - have to restore the lost connection once more."
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"Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'"
"Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses."
"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics."
"The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities."
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