Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Lombroso
Cesare Lombroso, was an Italian criminologist and physician, founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology, often referred to as the father of criminology. Lombroso rejected the established classical school, which held that crime was a characteristic trait of human nature. Instead, using concepts drawn from physiognomy, degeneration theory, psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physicaldefects, which confirmed a criminal as savage...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPsychologist
Date of Birth18 November 1835
CountryItaly
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.'
God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.
The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand
Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
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.
The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities