intellectual genius
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It earned him prestige and access, and it fueled the myth of his intellectual genius.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 28, 2026
Nietzsche was both an intellectual genius and a mental wreck—the latter overcoming the former when, so the story goes, he witnessed a horse being whipped in Turin, Italy, and subsequently suffered a psychotic break.
From Scientific American • Aug. 5, 2022
And certainly Hume sparkled brilliantly during that quite remarkable 18th century flowering of Caledonian intellectual genius.
From BBC • Jan. 3, 2016
But since the financial crisis he has been elevated to the status of a global-recession celebrity, drawing crowds of adoring followers who revere him as an intellectual genius.
From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2012
You speak then of the ordinary savant or of the intellectual genius, of the good or bad scientific workman.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Sabatier, Auguste
