intellectual genius
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But they helped to burnish the myth of intellectual genius that was also essential to his rise.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 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
As one of his biographers said of him, he joined to the most eminent intellectual genius a group of very precious qualities of the heart.
From Makers of Modern Medicine by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
