Quote by Louis Aragon
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later. – Louis Aragon

Other quotes by Louis Aragon

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. – Louis Aragon

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Criticism
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Of all possible sexual perversions, religion is the only one to have ever been scientifically systematized. – Louis Aragon

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Religion
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O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself. – Louis Aragon

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Dreams
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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age. – Napoleon Bonaparte, Discours de Lyon, 1771

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Every true genius is bound to be naive. – J.C.F. von Schiller

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Genius

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Genius

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. – W. H. Auden

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He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth will proceed by loving his own sect better than Christianity and end in loving himself better than all. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? Its a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God. – Fred Melamed

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