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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."
"A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else."
"What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around."
"Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos."
"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."
"Genius is an inner inherent intuition and perception. It is not a teachable condition."
"There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
Explore more quotes by Denis Diderot
"It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all."
"If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal."
"Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government; they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad."
"The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned."
"In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go."
"There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies."
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
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