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#1

“Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice. Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: walden

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#2

“No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,—that is your success. All nature is your congratulation, and you have cause momentarily to bless yourself. The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality... The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: higher-values, honest-images, nature, walden, what-matters

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#3

“My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: cool, days, enemies, walden, woodchuck, worm

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#4

“To be awake is to be alive.”
― Henry David Thoreau

tags: inspirtional, nature, walden

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#5

“I wanted to live how I really wanted, even if that meant turning against what everyone I knew was doing. I didn’t want to be close to the action or save on rent by sharing space anymore. I wanted to live somewhere with quiet views of the mountains, surrounded by nature and with plenty of time to sit, read, write and think.”
― Lucy Fuggle

tags: minimalism, mountains, nature, slow-down, slow-living, walden

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#6

“If you can speak what you will never hear,—if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

tags: genius, reading, writing

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#7

“...Worship of the genius is an echo of this reverence for gods and princes. Wherever one endeavours to elevate individual men to the superhuman, the tendency also exists to imagine whole classes of people as rougher and more base than they really are.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: belief, class, genius, god, leaders, politics, princes, religion, worship

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#8

“Every great phenomenon is followed by degeneration, particularly in the realm of art. The model of the great man stimulates vainer natures to imitate him outwardly or to surpass him; in addition, all great talents have the fateful quality of stifling many weaker forces and needs, and seem to devastate the nature around them. The most fortunate instance in the development of art is when several geniuses reciprocally keep each other in check; in this kind of a struggle, weaker and gentle natures are generally also allowed air and light.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

tags: art, artists, competition, culture, degeneration, genius, genuises, rivalry

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#9

“..[U] understand, everybody do not have the same IQ.”
― Farooq A. Shiekh

tags: genius, intelligent, iq, irritating, knowledgeable, learner, stupid, successful, understand, vision

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#10

“That was one manifestation of fear, the voice which whispered that he could not be both great and good, that genius was the exact combination of those inexplicable grooves and twists in his mind, that any discipline would curb it to mediocrity.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

tags: genius, good, mediocrity

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#11

“Genius is astute enough to understand its own depravity. Ignorance doesn’t know what depravity is. And stupidity might know what it is, but it’s convinced that it's immune to it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: christian, depravity, genius, god, ignorance, jesus, redemption, salvation, stupidity

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#12

“A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: genius, sociability, talking

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#13

“Genius simplifies things”
― Antonin Sertillanges, The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

tags: genius, inspirational, intellectual

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#14

“Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
― Arthur Rimbaud

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#15

“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein

tags: genius, humor

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#16

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear

tags: genius, gifts, mediocrity, recognition, sherlock-holmes, talent

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#17

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
― E.F. Schumacher

tags: complexity, elegance, genius, inspirational, simplicity, violence

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#18

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness — imperfection — and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia

tags: genius, imperfection, incompleteness, shudder, silence

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#19

“The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.”
― Kathleen Winsor

tags: genius, hard-worker

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#20

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create -- so that
without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”
― Pearl S. Buck

tags: creativity, genius, poem-in-your-pocket-day

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#21

“When you make a choice, you change the future.”
― Deepak Chopra

tags: choice, choosing, future, genius, life, mind, wisdom

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#22

“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.”
― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

tags: genius, love

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#23

“I was walking among the fires of Hell, delighted with the enjoyments of Genius; which to Angels look like torment and insanity.”
― William Blake

tags: angels, genius, hell, insanity, torment

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#24

“Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: beauty, genius

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#25

“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”
― Stephen Hawking

tags: boasting, brag, bragging, cleverest, cleverness, genius, intelligence, intelligence-quotes, iq

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#26

“Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.”
― Immanuel Kant

tags: brilliance, education, genius, independent, intellect, intelligence, self-education, taught, teaching

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#27

“The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.”
― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two

tags: chaos, genius, society

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#28

“Show Holmes a drop of water and he would deduce the existence of the Atlantic. Show it to me and I would look for a tap. That was the difference between us.”
― Anthony Horowitz, The House of Silk

tags: brains, deduction, genius, intelligence, mental-power, sherlock-holmes

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