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There is certainly no need to romanticize schizophrenic behavior, for its romantic-like elements have long been coupled in the public mind in an unfortunate manner, seeming to place the madman and the genius in some kind of indefinable relationship. Such beliefs are apparent in statements such as: “Madness is the other end of sanity,” or “All genius is touched with madness.”

She is going to grow up to be a mechanical genius. [...]

I never pretended to be a mechanical genius. [...]

You are aware of the nonsense connected with artists and poets and so forth—that they are too sensitive for the world, that great talent brings spiritual desolation, and that a man’s genius more often destroys him than fulfills him. Add to that list the belief that the great artist or writer concentrates upon his or her art so intensely and single-mindedly, and single-heartedly, that the focus itself forces the artist or poet to use those abilities to their utmost, or that great genius demands one-sided vision and a denial of the world. [...]

An artist or writer, believing such selective nonsense, will of course find all of his or her other creative abilities a distraction, a bother, a temptation that is bound to detract from the main genius, rather than add to it, deepen its application, and add an orchestration to its subjective moods that would otherwise be quite lacking (all intently). [...]

[...] (Pause.) If there were no idiots among you, you would soon find that geniuses were absent also.

[...] What you think of then as the average intelligence is a condition that exists because of the activity of constant variables, minute variations that give you at one end of the scale the idiot, and at the other the genius.

(9:45.) In no way do I mean to demean the indisputable value of geniuses, or their great contributions to the quality of life—but the quality of life is, again, also benefited by the existence of idiots. [...]

Many deficient individuals in their way are as vital to the development of humanity as geniuses are, for both preserve the elastic nature of human consciousness, and promote its coping qualifications.

The giving away of the money in order to help with someone else’s current need was, in it’s own way, a stroke of genius, regardless of its seeming simplicity and childishness.

[...] To some degree Ruburt believed that artists and writers, pioneers, or revolutionary thinkers, were somehow punished—despised even—for their genius; ostracized. [...]

[...] There are many variations on the same thing that the artist, the revolutionary thinker, the genius, would be punished by his fellow men, or even be betrayed by his own abilities. [...]

(Long pause.) Your species as a species includes the idiot and the genius, the stupid and the wise, the athletic, the deformed, the beautiful and the ugly, and all variations in between. [...]

Thus you deal often with events in which men are touched by great illumination, isolated from the masses of humanity, and endowed with great powers — periods of history that appear almost unnaturally brilliant in contrast with others; prophets, geniuses, and kings shown in greater-than-human proportion.

[...] His works are flawed — but they are the flawed apprentice works of a genius artist in the making, whose failures are indeed momentous and grotesque only in the light of his sensed genius, which ever leads him and directs him onward.

The scientist probing the brain of an idiot or a genius will find only the physical matter of the brain itself.

[...] Geniuses or dolts? [...]

[...] Great passion, or desire or intent — or genius — did not fit the picture.

[...] On a much different plane, this can be compared to geniuses in creative fields within your own physical reality.

[...] They were beliefs that had to do with talent, ability, or genius —

[...] The brain’s genius comes from the mind, which can be called the brain’s biophysical counterpart.

[...] Each person has the capacity, then, to be a genius on many levels. [...]

In your society talent, even genius, tries to ally itself, at least for a while, with your economic needs, for if the body does not eat the abilities will not survive. [...]

[...] His genius shows you what you are, and yet it is but a hint of the potential with which your species is endowed.

[...] Genius was seen as a mistake of chromosomes, or the fortunate result of a man’s hatred for his father. [...]

A brilliant mathematician or scientist, or even an artist, or an accepted genius in any field, can be an emotional incompetent, but no one considers him as retarded. [...]