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Letter "S" » skeptics
«The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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«The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.»
«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»
Author: Miguel de Unamuno
(Author, Philosopher)
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«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.»
Author: Thomas Mann
(Essayist, Novelist)
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«The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete skeptics in religion»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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«The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.»
«Truth, Sir, is a cow, which will yield such people [skeptics] no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.»
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