It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that the harvest is still so abundant.
—Margaret Fuller
Topics: Genius
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
—Margaret Fuller
Topics: Aspirations
Truth is the nursing mother of genius? No man true can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.
—Margaret Fuller
Topics: Truth
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
—Margaret Fuller
Topics: Nature
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
—Margaret Fuller
Topics: Women
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
—Margaret Fuller
Topics: Reality
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