“A great many modern people cling to the protection of views which are not merely false, but incoherent. For instance, they dogmatically insist that truth cannot be known, all the while supposing that what they say is true. Once upon a time it was enough to point out the incoherency—to call attention to the obvious. No longer. Today the reply is likely to be, ‘I’m incoherent, but so what? I don’t need coherency, and I can do without meaning.’ I answer, ‘I don’t believe you, because we both know that the longing for meaning and coherency is deep-set in every mind, including yours. The real question, then, is this: What is it that is so important to you that you are willing to give up even meaning, even coherency to have it?’”
--J. Budziszewski, The Revenge of Conscience
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