Quotes About Skepticism

It's that I no longer seem to know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal relations with them. Is it possible, I ask myself, that all of them are participants in a crime of stupefying proportions? Am I fantasizing it all? I must be mad! Yet every day I see the evidences. The very people I suspect produce the evidence, exhibit it, offer it to me. Corpses. Fragments of corpses they have bought for money.

Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say that at each moment while the pen moves he is truly himself? At one moment he might truly be himself, at another he might simply be making things up. How can one know for sure? Why should he even want to know for sure?

It's that I no longer know where I am. I seem to move around perfectly easily among people, to have perfectly normal relations with them. Is it possible, I ask myself, that all of them are participants in a crime of stupefying proportions? Am I fantasizing it all? I must be mad! Yet every day I see the evidences. The very people I suspect produce the evidence, exhibit it, offer it to me. Corpses. Fragments of corpses that they have bought for money.

En cuanto a la vaga intuición que tiene él al respecto —la idea de que, lejos de faltarle pasión, su alma bulle de anhelo por algo que desconoce—, se la toma con escepticismo, y la considera la clase de relato que alguien provisto de un alma seca, racional y deficiente se cuenta a sí mismo para conservar su amor propio.

If i were pressed to give my brand of political thought a label, I would call it pessimistic anarchistic quietism

We start by trusting our reason. But, later, we encounter skeptical arguments against that trust and so we stop trusting reason. But once we do this, we no longer have any reason to accept the skeptical arguments themselves and continue our mistrust of reason. At this point, I begin to trust reason again, but then, the skeptical arguments reassert themselves and so forth. We have entered a vicious dialectical loop that, eventually, will reach a sort of intellectual paralysis.

Man, you cannot be real, the human said softly. Why not? You just can't. She laughed a little. Well, I am. He cleared his throat again. Offered her a lopsided grin. Mind if I ask you to prove it? How? Can I touch your hair?

Trust me, true? Butch barked a laugh. Last time you said that i ended up with a vampire cocktail, remember?

liked the evil in themselves too much to be trusted.

What, like you didn't think I'd have a second knife? Fucking idiot.

He was the one doing the Dr. Phil bullshit— Okaaaaaaaaaay

Give a man a fish and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.  He would have to learn the reality of a thing before he could put his faith into it.

Let's face it: 'Twilight' is kind of an easy thing to make fun of.

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw.

To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

I think that my career speaks for itself and shows the type of player I am. I have never had a teammate who didn't enjoy playing with me. There are always going to be skeptics, but chemistry will definitely not be an issue.

One of my biggest fears is to be proven wrong by somebody that doesn't agree with me or doesn't have my best interest at heart. With that being said I'm always seeking to prove those types of people wrong.

I feel like, especially in Hollywood, you meet people with ulterior motives, who are trying to get something from you.

My grandmother was a psychiatrist and possibly the ultimate of all skeptics. But even she couldn't explain the strange noises we so often heard in the attic.

I think you can be sceptical, and still do things that are in a joyful way, and ultimately you are on stage entertaining. If you let your philosophy get too much in the way of that, then you are failing as an entertainer.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.