A Quote by Jean Baudrillard

Genius is childhood recaptured.

Jean Baudrillard

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Childhood Genius

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Jean Baudrillard
French - Sociologist
July 29, 1929 - March 6, 2007

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

Charles Baudelaire

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

Charles Baudelaire

Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

Charles Baudelaire

I think Harold Ramis is a genius beyond genius, and he's the nicest guy, funniest guy, sweetest guy ever. So I don't know if it applies to everybody, but maybe it has to do with your childhood.

P. J. Soles

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

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

Pablo Picasso

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

Arthur Rimbaud

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

H. L. Mencken

Genius is childhood recalled at will.

Charles Baudelaire

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

Charles Baudelaire

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

Thomas Huxley

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Childhood and genius have the same master organ in common - inquisitiveness.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

Arthur Schopenhauer

When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.