“Sceptic, mathematician, Christian; doubt, affirmation, submission.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“You are a sceptic." "Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith." "What are you?" "To define is to limit.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost is not a Sceptic, and He has not inscribed in our hearts uncertain opinions, but, rather, affirmations of the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian. — David Hume Copy Share Image
If, presume not to God to scan; The proper study of Mankind is Man. Plac'd on this isthmus of a middle state,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through… — Joseph Muscat Copy Share Image
What of Art? -It is a malady. --Love? -An Illusion. --Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. --You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Limbo is the place. In Limbo one has natural happiness without the beatific vision; no harps; no communal order; but wine and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The sceptics assert, though absurdly, that the origin of all religious worship was derived from the utility of inanimate objects,as the sun… — David Hume Copy Share Image
My position is such that there is no necessity for me to enter into competition with struggling humanity. As to expensive and… — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
While the dogmatist is harmful, the sceptic is useless ...; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I note that warmists are often banging on about the fact that sceptics like Christopher Booker and myself 'only' have arts degrees.… — James Delingpole Copy Share Image
Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“However, this sceptic had one fanaticism. This fanaticism was neither a dogma, nor an idea, nor an art, nor a science; it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It has often been argued that absolute scepticism is self-contradictory; but this is a mistake: and even if it were not so,… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost… — Eric Ambler Copy Share Image
The want of faith, as well as faith itself, is best shewn by works. If a sceptic avoid the fire as much… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great... He hangs between; in doubt to act… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Never trust anyone who has no doubts. And I'm not talking about scepticism either: scepticism can be a healthy thing. You can… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
I am not a global warming sceptic. I accept that rising human-caused CO2 from fossil sources could 'change the climate'. The basic… — Chris de Freitas Copy Share Image
The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The sceptic, when he plunges into the depths of infidelity, like the miser who leaps from the shipwreck, will find that the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
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