The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.