Communication Quote by Leo Strauss

“Essentially, Doctor Pascal's only faith was his faith in life. Life was the unique manifestation of the divine. Life was God, the great motive…

— Émile Zola

“But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of…

— C.S. Lewis

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

— Pierre Bayle

“Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.”

— Dana Wallace

“No conclusion can be more agreable to scepticism than such as make discoveries concerning the weakness and narrow limites of human reason and capacity”

— David Hume

“some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know.”

— Elyn R. Saks

“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them.”

— Bertrand Russell

“You can't have too much dog in a book.”

— Gail Honeyman

“…just as determined belief yields no ground to the most irresistible powers and strategies, so too determined unbelief.”

— Harry Lang

“The greatest tragedy with a sceptic is that he cannot consign himself to truth, however he may see it.”

— Raheel Farooq

“But sometimes people need to be believed in more than they need to be told what is so.”

— Adriana Mather

“Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital.”

— Walker Percy