Cesare Lombroso



Cesare Lombroso (6 November, 1835 – 19 October, 1909) was an Italian criminologist and founder of the Italian School of Positivist Criminology. He is the father of Criminology or the father of modern Criminology.

Quotes



 * Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.
 * Die Welt (1909); also in A Treasury of Jewish Quotations (1985) by Joseph L. Baron


 * Genius is one of the many forms of insanity.
 * As quoted in Born under Saturn: the character and conduct of artists : a documented history from antiquity to the French Revolution (1963) by Margot Wittkower.

The Man of Genius (1891)

 * 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.
 * p. x


 * Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaningof a passage in his poem. He replied, "God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows."
 * Pt. I, Ch. 2


 * The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities.
 * Pt. II, Ch. 2


 * The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand.
 * Pt. III, Ch. 3


 * "Lawsuit mania"… a continual craving to go to law against others, while considering themselves the injured party.
 * Pt. III, Ch. 3