The true genius shudders
The true genius shudders at incompleteness. Edgar Allan Poe
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness. Edgar Allan Poe
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from disease of thought– from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect. Edgar Allan Poe
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe
There is always some madness in love. Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity in individuals is something rare – but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. Friedrich Nietzsche
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them. Denis Diderot
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein
Genius and madness have something in common: both live in a world that is different from that which exists for everyone else. Arthur Schopenhauer