More specifically concerning: genius
terra incognita
10 February 2013, around 5.14.
Charles Reade, under the banner of imagination, departs from everyday life to parts unknown. 1 Charles Reade shows up in Jean Strouse’s biography of Alice James: Her improving health allowed Alice to enjoy a greater range of intellectual life than before. She went to the theater […] and she was reading a great deal, particularly […]
on cleverness
20 July 2013, around 8.35.
William Hazlitt on cleverness.
Citation (64)
7 September 2020, around 12.22.
memory, the field of vision, consciousness, a spark.
precepts
23 August 2024, around 18.23.
It is most surprising that men have believed they could make rules take the place of such a talent. It is almost as if they wanted to reduce genius to precepts. —Jean Le Rond d’Alembert (Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, trans. Richard N. Schwab, p. 34)