“Genius, indeed, melts many ages into one, and thus effects something permanent, yet still with a similarity of office to that of the more ephemeral writer. A work of genius is but the newspaper of a century, or perchance of a hundred centuries.” StillsAgeEffectsCenturyGeniusOfficeHundredNewspapersPermanentSimilarityEphemeral Book:Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts Source: Mosses from an Old Manse...: In Two Parts
“If it were not for respect for human opinions, I would not open my window to see the Bay of Naples for the first time, whilst I would go five hundred leagues to talk with a man of genius whom I had not seen.” IfsMenFirstsHumansOpinionFiveGeniusConversationHundredFirst TimeWindowLeagueNaples Author:Madame de Stael
“Without any extraordinary effort of genius, I have discovered that nature was the same three thousand years ago as at present; that men were but men then as well as now; that modes and customs vary often, but that human nature is always the same. And I can no more suppose, that men were better, braver, or wiser, fifteen hundred or three thousand years ago, than I can suppose that the animals or vegetables were better than they are now.” MenYearsHumansWellsI CanThreeAnimalEffortHuman NatureGeniusThousandHundredYears AgoExtraordinaryCustomsVegetablesFifteenThousand YearsWiserVary Author:Lord Chesterfield
“Not only in peasant homes, but also in city skyscrapers, there lives alongside the twentieth century, the thirteenth. A hundred million people use electricity and still believe in the magic powers of signs and exorcisms . . . movie stars to mediums. Aviators who pilot miraculous mechanisms created by man's genius wear amulets on their sweaters. What inexhaustible reserves they possess of darkness, ignorance and savagery!” PeopleMenBelieveStillsUseHomeStarsCitiesMillionsDarknessMagicCenturyIgnoranceGeniusHundredMediumsPilotsMechanismReservesElectricityMovie StarMiraculousTwentieth CenturyPeasantsSweatersSavagerySkyscraperAviatorExorcismAmuletsMagic Powers Author:Leon Trotsky
“When I was younger I would have told you it was my genius, but now I don't believe that for a second. Music just comes out of you, it flows through, it's weird. If you think about it intellectually, how does someone come up with two hundred riffs over their life time?” IfsThinkingBelieveDoeTwoGeniusHundredFlowDon't BelieveCome UpLife Time Author:Tracii Guns
“In my profession it isn’t a question of telling good literature from bad. Really good literature is seldom appreciated in its own day. The best authors die poor, the bad ones make money — it’s always been like that. What do I, an agent, get out of a literary genius who won’t be discovered for another hundred years? I’ll be dead myself then. Successful incompetents are what I need.” NeedsYearsDiesLiteraturePoorSuccessfulGeniusHundredProfessionAgentsMaking MoneyAppreciatedGood Literature Book:The City of Dreaming Books Source: The City of Dreaming Books
“Some people come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede -- not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above 14.” PeopleWayInspirationalCertainNamesFeetGeniusHundredInsectsCentipedes Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg