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“I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.”

Expression Personality Genius Elements Feminine Masculine Great Work Sexually Masculine And Feminine Androgynous

Author:May Sarton

“Weaknesses in men of genius are usually an exaggeration of their personal feeling; in the hands of feeble imitators they become the most flagrant blunders. Entire schools have been founded on misinterpretations of certain aspects of the masters. Lamentable mistakes have resulted from the thoughtless enthusiasm with which men have sought inspiration from the worst qualities of remarkable artists because they are unable to reproduce the sublime elements in their work.”

“Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius.”

Humor Genius Elements Dominant Admirable Surrogates

Book:The Wisdom of Goethe

Source: The Wisdom of Goethe

“The so-called materialistic conception of history, with the crude elements of genius of the early form which appeared, for instance, in the Communist Manifesto, still prevails only in the minds of laymen and dilettantes.”

Mind Stills Form Genius Elements Instance Conception Communist Crude Materialistic Layman Manifestos Communist Manifesto Dilettantes

Book:On the Methodology of the Social Sciences

Source: On the Methodology of the Social Sciences

“The elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.”

Genius Elements Cricket

Author:Neville Cardus

“Colleges, in like manner, have their indispensable office,--to teach elements. But they can only highly serve us, when they aim not to drill, but to create; when they gather from far every ray of various genius to their hospitable halls, and, by the concentrated fires, set the hearts of their youth on flame.”

Heart Education Teach Fire Youth College Genius Office Elements Aim Various Flames Halls Rays Indispensable Drills

Book:The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Boldness is a crucial element of genius.”

Genius Elements Crucial Boldness

Author:Horace Freeland Judson

“The old idea that some genius pulls all of this stuff out of the air is ridiculous. As Ridley pointed out, the only way Edison could invent the lightbulb is because all the elements had been developed before. That's obvious it wasn't just his genius - 20 others developed it at the same time. And that's true for almost every invention and discovery.”

Way Ideas Stuff Air Genius Elements Discovery Obvious Ridiculous Invention Old Ideas

Author:Charles Koch