Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.
More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
He didn’t believe that, surely. Of course not! But he had to pretend he did, as otherwise he would have had no choice but to be insulted. And since there would be nothing he could do about that, being...
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been per...
Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I fo...
Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.
Justice can be achieved only if one has the pertinent facts, and excusing evil requires that those facts be obscured; justice is thus precluded.
The real plague is willful ignorance and education can't cure that.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
The moral complexity of the situation had grown past his ability to process it, so he just relaxed in the warm glow of victory instead.
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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