Heinrich Heine Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Genius: 1. to believe your own thought. To believe that what is true for you is ultimately true. 2. a sledgehammer. 3. the fruit of labour and thought. 4. soul. 5. the ability to put into effect what is in your mind. 6. something one can become.

  Heinrich Heine

  Believe, Soul, Mind

• No author is a man of genius to his publisher.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Genius, Publishers

• Society is a republic. When an individual endeavors to lift himself above his fellows, he is dragged down by the mass, either by means of ridicule or of calumny. No one shall be more virtuous or more intellectually gifted than others. Whoever, by the irresistable force of genius, rises above the common herd is certain to be ostracized by society, which will pursue him with such merciless derision and detraction that at last he will be compelled to retreat into the solitude of his thoughts.

  Heinrich Heine

  Mean, Solitude, Individuality

• Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.

  Heinrich Heine

  Fiction, Genius, Literature

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