Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.

To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.