Robert Musil Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• We sometimes have a flash of understanding that amounts to the insight of genius, and yet it slowly withers, even in our hands - like a flower. The form remains, but the colours and the fragrance are gone.

  Robert Musil

  Flower, Hands, Understanding

• A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

  Robert Musil

  Stupid, Mean, Men

  Robert Musil (2015). “The Man Without Qualities: Picador Classic”, p.767, Pan Macmillan

• ... the genius never makes anything new, but always something that is just different, and the average talents provide him the possibility within which his genius condenses into achievements.

  Robert Musil

  Average, Achievement, Different

  Robert Musil, Burton Pike, David S. Luft (1995). “Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses”, p.33, University of Chicago Press

• It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

  Robert Musil

  Men, Years, Average

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