If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him.

Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.

If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.