“Teachers … preach “the superiority of the intelligence”; but they preach it because in their opinion it is the intelligence which shows us the actions required for our interests, i. e. from exactly the same passion for the practical.”

—  Julien Benda

Source: Treason of the Intellectuals (1927), p. 151

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French essayist 1867–1956

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