The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.
Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.
Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.
Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.
If one shoots at a king, one must not miss.
Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.