“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
Arthur Conan Doyle book The Valley of Fear
Source: The Valley of Fear
“Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.”
— Otto Weininger, book Sex and Character
Source: Sex and Character (1903), p. 111.
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