I remember reading a quote by the famous horror short story writer H.P. Lovecraft that made him up to be very epistemologically pessimistic, now that I know the label. Here it is:
"The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age."
He was also atheist, and anti-theist it seems from his other comments.
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