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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
The father's greatest folly is that he believes he can be a much more simple person than he is; he is not really able to deal with his own complexity as a human being.
I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
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.
Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.
Some deemed him wondrous wise, and some believed him mad.
Since when was genius found respectable?
My father was a classic intellectual. From him I learned devotion, and I also learned about the life of the mind.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.
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