Denis Diderot - Genius Quotes

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

Denis Diderot

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

Denis Diderot

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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Gaiety — a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

Denis Diderot

I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must work is either to extend the boundaries of the patches of light, or to increase their number. One of these tasks falls to the creative genius; the other requires a sort of sagacity combined with perfectionism.

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