“Intelligibility or precision: to combine the two is impossible.”

“Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.”

“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.”

“A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.”

“So far as I can remember there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.”

“Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.”

“A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible”