Cesare Lombroso Quotes

• Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses

  Cesare Lombroso

  Men, Honor, Genius

  "A Treasury of Jewish Quotations". Book by Joseph L. Baron, 1985.

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• Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Insanity, Genius, Form

  "Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution". Book by Margot Wittkower and Rudolf Wittkower, 1963.

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• The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

  Cesare Lombroso

  Genius, Mediocrity, Birth

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.116, Litres

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• God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

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  Forgetful, Forgetfulness, Knows

  The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

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• It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Cutting, Clothes, Analysis

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.11, Litres

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• The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand

  Cesare Lombroso

  Men, Ignorant, Adore

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.228, Litres

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• Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

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  Men, Genius, Crowds

  Cesare Lombroso (2017). “The Man of Genius”, p.7, Litres

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• Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

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  Passages, Knows

  The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

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