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#1. [G]enius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity . . .

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#2. The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

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#3. Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

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

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#8. 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.

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