skepticism

philosophy

light bulb joke

evidence

force

David Hume

Han Solo

dogmatism

Socrates

artist

optimism

optimist

pessimism

pessimist

realist

relativism

surrealism

physicist

utopian

is the highest of duties, just as blind faith is the one unpardonable sin.

Skepticism is the highest of duties... blind faith the one unpardonable sin. Thomas Huxley (1907)

is a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

a religion very rich in evangelists but very short on saviors.

is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what. Michael Shermer

is the very heights of the soporific and the sedative.

There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism. Friedrich Nietzsche

is not known to have ever made a change in a man, it always makes him feel better.

It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.

is the best kind of soporific and sedative.

is understood more profoundly by old women than by any philosopher. They see more clearly that the essence of existence is its superficiality and that all virtue and profundity is merely a veil over this truth.

Skeptics I am afraid that old women are more skeptical in their most secret heart of hearts than any man: they consider the superficiality of existence its essence, and all virtue and profundity is to them merely a veil over this truth, a very welcome vell over a pudendum-in other words, a matter of decency and shame. and no more than that.

skepticism, n.All

skepticism