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Cesare Lombroso
Italian
Psychologist
About the author
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
Cesare Lombroso,
Italian
Psychologist
#Man
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
Cesare Lombroso,
Italian
Psychologist
#Honor
#Men
#Goodness
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
Cesare Lombroso,
Italian
Psychologist
#Genius
#Appearance
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.'
Cesare Lombroso,
Italian
Psychologist
#Now
#God
#Meaning
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.
Cesare Lombroso,
Italian
Psychologist
#Reason
#Men
#Sense
#Genius
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
Cesare Lombroso,
Italian
Psychologist
#Genius
#Insanity