Genius Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up…

— Aristotle

“Why is it that all men who have become outstanding in philosophy, statesmanship, poetry or the arts are melancholic,”

— Joshua Wolf Shenk

Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

— Aristotle

“There is a melancholy that stems from greatness of mind.”

— Anonymous

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness

— Nicolas Chamfort

“Aristotle also observed that every virtue seems to be bang in the middle of two vices. It occupies what he termed ‘the golden mean’…

— The School of Life

“A melancholy is a lot of melancholies.”

— Karin Johannisson

“Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce, by the endless uncertainty in which…

— David Hume

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole…

— Petr Beckmann

“The melancholy with which it described an inability to live each day to the full, to take every day for what it really was,…

— Nina George

“he came to the conclusion that there was some mysterious connection between cleverness and unhappiness, and thanking his stars that he was neither scholar,…

— Charles Kingsley