Sri Aurobindo

Letters of Sri Aurobindo

CWSA 27

Fragment ID: 6641

Genius [2]

Of course it is quite possible to be an idiot and a genius at the same time – one can, that is to say, be the medium of a specialised and specific force which leaves the rest of the being brute stuff, unchanged and undeveloped. Genius is a phenomenon sui generis and many anomalies occur in its constitution by Nature.

13 February 1936