It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.

It is much harder to struggle against irrelevance than against exploitation.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

Fools are more hard to conquer than persuade.

To make astute people believe one is what one is not is, in most cases, harder than actually to become what one wishes to appear.

The monsters of the mind are far worse than those that actually exist.

In the long run it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is.

It is always more difficult to fight against faith than to fight against knowledge.

We suffer more in imagination than in reality.

It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.

To make clever people believe we are what we are not is in most instances harder than really to become what we want to seem to be.

It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.

It is both more difficult and more complicated to die than people think. Even though the soul craves for nothing but extinction and oblivion forever, the body is a conservative master which will not give up until the very end.

Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse.