“The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.” PeopleMatterShowsEasyWitSuperiorityPardonGood Nature Author:Bill Vaughan
“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.” ShowsActionPassionInterestOpinionTeacherPracticalsSuperiority Book:The Treason of the Intellectuals Source: The Treason of the Intellectuals
“Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.” IfsDoeShowsHandsSeemsAcceptingLaughingAirAtheismOughtIntellectualHumblePositive AtheismCuriousIronySpeakersNeverthelessSuperiorityAdoptedExaminationBenchesBe HumbleCongregationPulpitParrotsSecond HandIntellectual Superiority Book:Mark Twain's Fables of Man Source: Mark Twain's Fables of Man