Anxiety Quote by Sextus Empiricus

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

— Blaise Pascal

“The diagnostic enterprise hinges on an optimistic notion: that disease is part of a natural world that only awaits our understanding. But even if…

— Gary Greenberg

In scientific subjects, the natural remedy for dogmatism has been found in research.

— Ronald Fisher

“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

Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.

— Emile M. Cioran

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

— Sextus Empiricus

“The incessant anxiety and strain of some is a well-nigh incurable form of disease. We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work…

— Henry David Thoreau

The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord,…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Religion may have been the original cure; Freud reminds us that it was also the original disease.

— Philip Rieff

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

— Bertrand Russell

“A perpetual state of anxiety over what is ultimately out of our control comes to dominate our lives. Affliction causes anxiety—and anxiety crushes us…

— Kristen Wetherell