“YOU are a genius!… and I am a genius because I married you.”
Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist
“Where passion is married to intelligence, you may find genius, neurosis, madness or rapture.”
The Mysteries of Berkeley (March 2002)
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Source: Batman: The Killing Joke
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Forever.
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Context: Don't misunderstand me," I said. "Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.
“Anger is a momentary madness so control your passion or it will control you.”
Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret
imperat.
Book I, epistle ii, line 62
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)