"Reject Not Thine Only Means Of Survival"

Man’s basic vice, the source of all his evils, is the act of unfocusing his mind, the suspension of his consciousness, which is not blindness, but the refusal to see, not ignorance, but the refusal to know. Irrationality is the rejection of man’s means of survival [God] and, therefore, a commitment to a course of blind destruction...

Ayn Rand