We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men

War is a way of shattering to pieces... materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and... too intelligent.

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

If you simplify your English, you are freed from the worst follies of orthodoxy. You cannot speak any of the necessary dialects, and when you make a stupid remark its stupidity will be obvious, even to yourself.