Quotes by Cesare Lombroso

"It is a sad mission to cut through and destroy with the scissors of analysis the delicate and iridescent veils with which our proud mediocrity clothes itself."
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"Genius is one of the many forms of insanity."
Cesare Lombroso
"[G]enius is a true degenerative psychosis belonging to the group of moral insanity . . ."
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Cesare Lombroso (/lɒmˈbroʊsoʊ/ lom-BROH-soh, US also /lɔːmˈ-/ lawm-; Italian: [ˈtʃeːzare lomˈbroːzo, ˈtʃɛː-, -oːso]; born Ezechia Marco Lombroso; 6 November 1835 – 19 October 1909) was an Italian euge...