“Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness”
“A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happens to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.”
Essays on Men and Manners (1804)
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“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)
“Every man is a potential genius until he does something.”
Page 110.
Beerbohm Tree (1956)
Radio Interview, July 6 2001 http://www.geocities.jp/bobbby_b/mp3/F_18_1.MP3
2000s
“Stand aside, and try not to catch fire if I shed sparks of genius.”
Source: The Republic of Thieves
“Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,
The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.”
Source: Table Talk (1782), Line 542.