Being genius does not necessarily mean knowing it all or having the highest academic qualification; but a persons ability to apply wisdom and common sense to common things in a distinctive manner and courageously, exhibiting the latent deft to the admiration of the masses

When Christianity takes itself seriously, it must either renounce or master the world.

Not your thinking, but your being, is distinctiveness. Therefore not after difference,ye think it, must ye strive; but after YOUR OWN BEING. At bottom, therefore, there is only one striving, namely, the striving after your own being.

Throw away the servility of imitation, and rise to the manliness of originality.

The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.

Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.

Notwithstanding how good you are, you shall be perceived as bad by the masses when you take the extraordinary steps that lead to distinctiveness which the masses may regard as bad

Sometimes a citizenry should not simply "be good". You have to leave space for dissent, real dissent.

When you walk in distinction, you don’t compete with anyone but competition wants to compete with you.