Cesare Lombroso Quotes

Cesare Lombroso offers grand, witty musings on genius and society, ideal for those who love bold ideas.

9 quotes

1. Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaningof a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'

2. The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

3. 'Lawsuit mania'...a continual craving to go to law against others, while considering themselves the injured party.

4. Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.

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.

6. The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

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

8. God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

9. 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.