Victor Hugo Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• Inspiration and genius -one and the same.

  Victor Hugo

  Business, Inspiration, Successful

• Taste is the common sense of genius.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Common Sense, Genius

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12495, Delphi Classics

• Genius: the superhuman in man.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Genius, Superhuman

• Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

  Victor Hugo

  Mean, Becoming One, Genius

• Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Brain

  Victor Hugo (2016). “William Shakespeare”, p.25, Library of Alexandria

• The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Ideas, Doe

• His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Judgement, Genius

  Victor Hugo (2002). “The Hunchback of Notre Dame”, Random House LLC

• The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Men, Effort

  Victor Hugo (2010). “The Works of Victor Hugo”, p.413, BookCaps Study Guides

• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  Victor Hugo

  Halloween, Greatness, Mountain

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6986, Delphi Classics

• Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Real, Men

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.43, The Minerva Group, Inc.

• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Genius, Infinite

  "William Shakespeare". Book by Victor Hugo, 1864.

• The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

  Victor Hugo

  Art, Men, Order

  Victor Hugo (1909). “The Works of Victor Hugo”

• There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius.

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  Wings, Light, Flames

  Victor Hugo (1863). “Les misérables”

• To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders.

  Victor Hugo

  Lying, Fighting, Revolutionary Leaders

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.6978, Delphi Classics

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