Denis Diderot Quotes on Genius
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Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
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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.
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The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.
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Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.