People certainly tended to overestimate the intelligence of dogs! - George R. Stewart

Yes, he realized, if a man began to think of himself as divinely appointed, he was close to thinking of himself as God—and at that point lay insanity.

Perhaps rationalism—like so much else—had only been one of the luxuries which men could afford under civilization.

What would be the use of all these books now? Why worry about one of them? Why worry about all the millions of them? There was no one left, now, to carry on. Books themselves, mere wood pulp and lampblack, were nothing—without a mind to use them.