Cesare Lombroso Quotes

[G]enius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity . . .

"Lawsuit mania"… a continual craving to go to law against others, while considering themselves the injured party.

Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaningof a passage in his poem. He replied, "God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows."

The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.