
“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture.”
The Mysteries of Berkeley (March 2002)
“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture.”
The Mysteries of Berkeley (March 2002)
“Perhaps genius alone understands genius fully.”
Sometimes translated as: Perhaps only genius fully understands genius
Original: Vielleicht versteht nur der Genius den Genius ganz, Robert Schumann, Advice to Young Musicians, translation of Musikalische Haus- und Lebens-Regeln, translated by Henry Hugo Pierson, Leipsic & New York: J. Schuberth & Co., 1860.
Le génie enfante, le goût conserve. Le goût est le bon sens du génie; sans le goût, le génie n'est qu'une sublime folie.
François-René de Chateaubriand, in "Essai sur la littérature anglaise (1836): Modèles classiques http://visualiseur.bnf.fr/CadresFenetre?O=NUMM-101390&M=tdm.
Misattributed
“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
“Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence.”
1830s, The American Scholar http://www.emersoncentral.com/amscholar.htm (1837)
“Every child is in a way a genius; and every genius is in a way a child.”
Wirklich ist jedes Kind gewissermaßen ein Genie, und jedes Genie gewissermaßen ein Kind.
Bd. 2, § 3.31, p. 451
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. ”