We are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.
There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius.
I don’t want to be a genius-I have enough problems just trying to be a man.
Genius never desires what does not exist.
If the sphere of paradox-religion is abolished, or explained away in aesthetics, an Apostle becomes neither more nor less than a genius, and then – good night, Christianity! Esprit and the Spirit, revelation and originality, a call from God and genius, all end by meaning more or less the same thing.”
As a genius St. Paul cannot be compared with either Plato or Shakespeare, as a coiner of beautiful similes he comes pretty low down in the scale, as a stylist his name is quite obscure – and as an upholsterer: well, I frankly admit I have no idea how to place him.
My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
