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“Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that, owing to the equipollence of the objects and reasons thus opposed we are brought firstly to a state of mental suspense and next to a state of unperturbedness or quietude.”
—Sextus Empiricus (2nd or 3rd cen., A.d.)
“There may be other reasons for a mans not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.”
—Samuel Johnson (17091784)
“Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shameand there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans aremore humane.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
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