A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal.
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You can give me no greater consolation nor render greater service to your neighbor than to place yourself in a condition to serve him for a long time
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Therefore Lord, not only are you that than which a greater cannot be thought but you are also something greater than can be thought.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
There is no greater path to mediocrity in life than trying to be realistic.
One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
Vivid simplicity is the articulation, the nature of genius. Wisdom is greater than intelligence; intelligence is greater than philosobabble.
It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.
Consider the pains which martyrs have endured, and think how even now many people are bearing afflictions beyond all measure greater than yours, and say, "Of a truth my trouble is comfort, my torments are but roses as compared to those whose life is a continual death, without solace, or aid or consolation, borne down with a weight of grief tenfold greater than mine."
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more than genius can go undiscovered.
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.
As long as I can remember I feel I have had this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. My brain becomes magnetized with this dominating force which I hold in my hand.
For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
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