There is only one true kind of elitism, and that is intellectual aristocracy.

 There is only one true kind of elitism, and that is intellectual aristocracy. The ordinary majority comprises almost all of humanity, but there is always a small segment: the quality people, and they alone. Society is merely a rubbish heap that the lucid person sifts through in search of such people, and the moment they are extracted from it, the cesspool itself is burned and destroyed. After all, to find diamonds, one must be a good miner—blowing up the cave with dynamite to open space for them.