…no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth
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Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
Let us overthrow the totems, break the taboos. Or better, let us consider them cancelled. Coldly, let us be intelligent.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
[The U.S. victory in Gulf war was] a stirring victory for the forces of aggression.
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.