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Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.