Quotes with eccentricity

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  • John Stuart Mill Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • André Maurois No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • John Stuart Mill The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Joseph Brodsky The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned imposter couldn't be happy with.
    Joseph Brodsky
    Russian-born American Poet, Critic (1940 - 1996)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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