The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of the Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.

Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

G.K Chesterton (1874-1936)

Mankind have an aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily available, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson from Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson