“For vice has this defect; it cannot be truly intelligent. Its very motives are its weakness.”
Lost Legacy (p. 339)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
“True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.”
“An Unprejudiced Mind,” pp. 311-312
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
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