We have art to save ourselves from the truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. (A. J. Liebling)

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. (Carl Sagan)

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain. (Friedrich von Schiller)