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 the […]
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)