Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Genius is a grace. The true man of genius acts by movement or by impulsion.
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Genius is nothing more than common faculties refined to a greater intensity. There are no astonishing ways of doing astonishing things. All astonishing things are done by ordinary materials.
A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.
The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.