Denis Diderot Quotes About Genius
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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
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Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
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I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Gaiety is a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
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Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
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