"The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant."

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Source : "Of Human Accomplishment". The New Criterion, www.denisdutton.com. February, 2004.

Denis Dutton

#Understanding Quotes #Genius Quotes #Capacity Quotes

“The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event.”
“Actually, I've been working on a plan. During the exam, I'll hide under some coats, and hope that somehow everything will work out.”
“I'm afraid the workings of J.J. Abrams' mind falls outside the predictive capacity of any coherent theory.”

Source : "Surfer-Physicist's Unified Theory Leads to Fame, Backlash". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 27, 2008.
“Cooking is like decorating - it never bores me.”

Source : "Denning's Pot-au-Feu – A decorator indulges his passion for cuisine bourgeoise", by Suzanne Hart, House & Garden, March 1992.
“I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government”
“But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial?”
“Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.”
“Art is not the spiritual side of business.”

Source : Ad Reinhardt, Barbara Rose (1991). “Art-as-art: The Selected Writings of Ad Reinhardt”, p.56, Univ of California Press

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