A Quote by Johann Kaspar Lavater
The proportion of genius to the vulgar is like one to a million.
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Intelligence is to genius as the whole is in proportion to its part.
[Fr., Entre esprit et talent il y a la proportion du tout a sa partie.]
A man of genius is inexhaustible only in proportion as he is always renourishing his genius.
The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.
Rather be frumpy than vulgar! Much. Frumps are often celebrities in disguise -- but a person of vulgar appearance is vulgar all through.
Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.
Men of genius are rarely much annoyed by the company of vulgar people.
The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.
It is quite possible for the vulgar to be funny, but to succeed, it must rise to a certain genius.
...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds.
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
It is very remarkable that while the words Eternal, Eternity, Forever, are constantly in our mouths, and applied without hesitation, we yet experience considerable difficulty in contemplating any definite term which bears a very large proportion to the brief cycles of our petty chronicles. There are many minds that would not for an instant doubt the God of Nature to have existed from all Eternity, and would yet reject as preposterous the idea of going back a million of years in the History of His Works. Yet what is a million, or a million million, of solar revolutions to an Eternity?
They said that Etta James is still vulgar. I said, Oh, how dare them say I'm still vulgar. I'm vulgar because I dance in the chair. What would they want me to do? Want me to just be still or something like that? I've got to do something.
I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.
Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.
The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.
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