“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
“There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep.”
“A great deal of intellectual intelligence depends on emotional intelligence.”
“Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience.”
“A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.”
“A great deal of tenderness, but it was the tenderness of a hospice nurse - of one committed to caring but too familiar with pain and parting to every truly or fully invest.”