Quotes About Skepticism

Nothing here is as it seems; Dreams are truths, and truths are dreams. Closed your ears to loved ones' cries; Die if you believe your eyes. Bind with ropes your flesh and blood, And let your guide be made of wood.

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends.

You can't trust actors.

Je suis devenu celui que j'avais si peur de devenir. Un sceptique. Un agnostique - même pas assez croyant pour être athée. Un homme qui pense que le contraire de la vérité n'est pas le mensonge, mais la certitude. Et le pire, du point de vue de celui que j'ai été, c'est que je m'en porte plutôt bien. (p. 141)

instrucciones de prudencia dignas de grandes paranoicos.

History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.

History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.

Relativismo, escepticismo y finalmente nihilismo tienen un tono devorador, porque de ellos emerge un hombre pesimista, desilusionado, indiferente a la verdad por comodidad, por no profundizar en cuestiones sustanciales. Así surge la idea del consenso como juez último: lo que diga la mayoría es la verdad.

La sexualidad sin amor auténtico conduce a un vacío gradual que desemboca en hastío, indiferencia y escepticismo, es decir, una actitud descomprometida en exceso. A veces, incluso, con espíritu crítico podemos descubrir en su trasfondo notas autodestructivas.

Pero cuando la oía perorar contra los maridos infieles y las destructoras de hogares, sometía sus anatemas a un escéptico examen. En el amor, las leyes de la atracción pesaban más que los compromisos morales. Su padre era un hombre de sangre caliente y corazón liviano, pero eso no lo convertía necesariamente en un villano de melodrama.

Así funcionan los periódicos en este país, pero tú eras demasiado idealista para entenderlo.

nadie puede creer en la noble sonrisa de una cabeza degollada.

I neka ti uvijek bude na umu da nisi ljudski stvor ve? samo obi?an turist. ne daj se zavesti izvanjskom ljubaznoš?u: ona ne ide tebe ve? tvoju lisnicu.

If a person fights the clear evidence of his senses he will never be able to share in genuine tranquillity."41 In other words, a person who doubts his senses will either lose contact with the reality of the surrounding world, like the Skeptics, and become psychologically isolated and insecure, or he will fall prey, as do the religionists, to theological explanations which do not allay anxiety but foment it.

Among those who said they had heard something about it, 60 percent said they had completely believed it and 8 percent said that they had believed it in part. Among the rest, 14 percent said they had not believed it at first, and 18 percent said that they had not believed it at all.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as a superhuman Law, it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

A person who searched rooms, brandished pistols, dangled promises of half a million franc fees for nameless services and then wrote instructions to Polish spies might reasonably be regarded with suspicion. But suspicion of what?

He listened to everyone but his heart kept asking why.

One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

Whether the church in America is really "free," I doubt.

If we believe miracles cannot happen today but happened to our distant ancestors, what we really seem to be saying is not that miracles happened back then but, rather, that all those people back then were naive enough to believe they happened. It is to say that miracles never happened, but gullible people thought they did.

sometimes the curses of the godless sound better than the hallelujahs of the pious." Barth