Cesare Lombroso Quotes

• Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

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  Hombres, Honor, Genio

  "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1985.

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• Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

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  Insanity, Genius, Form

  "Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.

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• The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

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  Genius, Mediocrity, Birth

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.116, Litres

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• God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

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  Forgetful, Forgetfulness, Knows

  The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

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• It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

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  Cutting, Clothes, Analysis

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres

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• The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

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  Men, Ignorant, Adore

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.228, Litres

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• El buen sentido viaja por caminos trillados; el genio, nunca. Y por eso la multitud, no sin razón, está tan dispuesta a tratar a los grandes hombres como lunáticos.

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  Men, Genius, Crowds

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.7, Litres

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• Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

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  Passages, Knows

  The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

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