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A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity
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Cranks live by theory, not by pure desire. They want votes, peace, nuts, liberty, and spinning looms not because they love these things, as a child loves jam, but because they think they ought to have them. That is one element which makes the crank.
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Eccentric doesn’t bother me. ‘Eccentric’ being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn’t follow the lines – that’s okay.
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
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Eccentricity is developed monomania.
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Even beauty cannot always palliate eccentricity.
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It’s originally a mathematical term, … Something that veers off the line is eccentric, not concentric. If you look at the poetry of that, there really isn’t anything wrong with going off the line and exploring different things.
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Men are of necessity so mad, that not to be mad were madness in another form.
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Oddities and singularities of behavior may attend genius; but when they do, they are its misfortunes and blemishes. The man of true genius will be ashamed of them, or at least will never affect to be distinguished by them.
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Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.
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Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
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So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King’s highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him — pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?
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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
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The English like eccentrics; They just don”t like them living next door
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.
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The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
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Thou strange piece of wild nature!
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Want to become typecast as an eccentric.
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Who affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.
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