There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.
Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
My father believed, like Pericles, that a man's genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.
What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.
Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
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