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Denis Diderot Quotes about Genius

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Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.

Men, Age, Genius

Denis Diderot (1966). “Selected Writings”, New York : Macmillan

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

Men, Genius, Madness

Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty.

Genius, Novelty, Forging Ahead

Denis Diderot, Jacques Barzun, Ralph Henry Bowen (2001). “Rameau's Nephew and Other Works”, p.43, Hackett Publishing

The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.

Freedom, Might, Genius

"Observations on the Drawing Up of Laws". A letter to Catherine the Great, 1774.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

Evil, Genius, World

"Dictionary of Foreign Quotations". Book by Mary Collison and Robert L. Collison, p. 98, 1980.

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