One has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One always has the idea of a stupid man as perfectly healthy and ordinary, and of illness as making one refined and clever and unusual.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
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.
What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Man is the inventor of stupidity.
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
I think 'A Serious Man' is genius.
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.
Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.