Genius/psychology

Famous quotes containing the words genius and/or psychology:

“The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of “spirit” over matter.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)