"If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank."

Allen, Woody · Skepticism · 4 fans >>
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"A skeptic is a person who, when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it is a forgery."

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"If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom."

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"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."

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"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."

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"Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith."

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"Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind."

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"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."

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"A mind that questions everything, unless strong enough to bear the weight of its ignorance, risks questioning itself and being engulfed in doubt. If it cannot discover the claims to existence of the objects of its questioning -- and it would be miraculous if it so soon succeeded in solving so many mysteries -- it will deny them all reality, the mere formulation of the problem already implying an inclination to negative solutions. But in so doing it will become void of all positive content and, finding nothing which offers it resistance, will launch itself perforce into the emptiness of inner revere."

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"Skepticism is unbelief in cause and effect."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo · Skepticism · 2 fans >>
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