Quotes from Sextus Empiricus

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

Those who claim for themselves to judge the truth are bound to possess a criterion of truth. This criterion, then, either is without a judge's approval or has been approved. But if it is without approval, whence comes it that it is truthworthy? For no matter of dispute is to be trusted without judging. And, if it has been approved, that which approves it, in turn, either has been approved or has not been approved, and so on ad infinitum.

To every argument an equal argument is opposed.

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.