A Quote by Aristotle

There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

Aristotle

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Aristotle
Greek - Philosopher
384 BC - 322 BC

There is no genius free from some tincture of madness

Seneca the Younger

There has never been any great genius without a spice of madness.

Seneca the Younger

There is no genius without a mixture of madness.

Seneca the Younger

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Aristotle

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

Aristotle

There is no element of genius without some form of madness.

Leonardo DiCaprio

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I think the big danger of madness is not madness itself, but the habit of madness. What I discovered during the time I spent in the asylum is that I could choose madness and spend my whole life without working, doing nothing, pretending to be mad. It was a very strong temptation.

Paulo Coelho

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

John Lennon

Universality is the distinguishing mark of genius. There is no such thing as a special genius, a genius for mathematics, or for music, or even for chess, but only a universal genius. The genius is a man who knows everything without having learned it.

Otto Weininger

The genius which runs to madness is no longer genius.

Otto Weininger

There is no pleasure without a tincture of bitterness.

Hafez

Genius has to pass over madness and madness over genius

Salvador Dali

Some were brilliant bordering on genius. Others, genius bordering on madness

Erich Segal

The chaste mind, like a polished plane, may admit foul thoughts, without receiving their tincture.

Laurence Sterne

Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated. Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing. They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality. They both, when we study that grand tapestry known as history and modern-day society, tend to stand out in much bolder relief than other figures. -- from Dancing with Madness, Dancing with Genius

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