With most people, doubt about one thing is simply blind belief in another.
Showing posts with label Skepticism Quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Skepticism Quotes. Show all posts
We, when we sow the seeds of d...
We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which the time has need.
The skeptic does not mean him ...
The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks that he has found.
The empiricist... thinks he be...
The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
Skepticism, as I said, is not ...
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.
He talks about the Scylla of A...
He talks about the Scylla of Atheism and the Charybdis of Christianity -- a state of mind which, by the way, is not conducive to bold navigation.
I am ready to reject all belie...
I am ready to reject all belief and reasoning, and can look upon no opinion even as more probable or likely than another.
Cautiousness in judgment is no...
Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.
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