Quotations: Skepticism

The 10 quotations from the philosophers tied to this movement, each linked to the position it expresses.

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Hume7 quotations

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

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After a repetition of similar instances, the mind is carried by habit, upon the appearance of one event, to expect its usual attendant... This connexion, therefore, which we feel in the mind, is the impression from which we form the idea of power or necessary connexion.

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All our ideas are nothing but copies of our impressions, or, in other words, it is impossible for us to think of anything which we have not antecedently felt.

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Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Essays, "Of the Standard of Taste"

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For my part, when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other... I never can catch myself at any time without a perception.

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Morality is more properly felt than judg'd of.

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Reason is, and ought only to be, the slave of the passions.

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Pyrrho1 quotations

Things are no more this than that, nor both at once, nor neither.

Aristocles, cited by Eusebius, Preparation for the Gospel, XIV, 18

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Sextus Empiricus2 quotations

To every argument an equal argument is opposed.

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Tranquillity followed the suspension of judgment as a shadow follows its body.

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