#genius

I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity. ↗

— William Blake

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I don't want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man. ↗

— Albert Camus

#humanity #humour #man #problems #genius

If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius. ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#michelangelo #genius

Why shouldn't I be introspective? We dont' make sense." "Neither do Chocolate and Peanut Butter, but it somehow works." He says "Somehow the mixture of two things is genius. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

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Geniuses and supergeniuses always make their own rules about sex as on everything else; they do not accept the monkey customs of their lessers. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#genius

…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #talent #louisa-may-alcott

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ↗

— Joseph Addison

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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#french #genius #understand #you

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. ↗

— Minna Antrim

#know #neighbors #self #wisdom

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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