If you can imagine the incongruity of placing an Oxford graduate in a 'special people's' workshop, take that relation and apply it to a genius placed anywhere in society.
The genius is the kind of guy that's willing to do the proverbial 'search for a needle in a haystack' if there's good reason to, but even so, has given up looking for a conscious female partner.
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Openness and honesty give off a strong scent to vultures, but the genius has learnt how to deal with them. He survives and empowers through truth and fairness alone.
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Man's greatest disappointment in life is when he realises the finitude of his wife. The young genius' disappointment is all the greater, because society has always been his wife.
Most people's mind struggles to keep up with the flux of reality, whereas the genius' overflows it many times over. With so much consciousness on tap, it is inevitable that he spends a great proportion of his life in imagination.
Occasionally there is a small mourning in the young genius for all the women he has chosen not to involve himself with. But then he remembers that there is nothing to be learnt or gained from them, and it goes away.
So, I didn't get your point. What's your point? Are you saying I can't say I think making up quotes on genius is dumb? I wasn't even referring to your post in particular, I was just stating it as a general sentiment, as a joke.
Thoughts of genius are of the nature of the precipice, being so pointed that to sit long with them is to be thoroughly impaled, whereas to waver in any direction is to fall entirely from the heights.
Just as with the individual man, the race also needs recapitulating lectures or tutors in order to preserve continuity. Geniuses are really such tutors. They are developed far more slowly than other men; they actually run through the basic forms of existence that have been travelled in past world-history. Precisely there lies their significance as correctives. Although the geniuses do prophetically point to the future, they do it precisely by way of a deeper remembering of the past. All development is certainly not a backing up but a going back, and this is primitivity.
From the midst of the flat plain of human reason, there arises the terrible, fire-spewing mountain of genius.--Constantin Brunner, Our Christ: The Essence of Genius.
