“Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.”
― Sextus Empiricus (160-210)
“The wise man is always similar to himself.”
― Sextus Empiricus (160-210)
“Those who claim for themselves to judge the truth are bound to possess a criterion of truth. This criterion, then, either is without a judge's approval or has been approved. But if it is without approval, whence comes it that it is truthworthy? For no matter of dispute is to be trusted without judging. And, if it has been approved, that which approves it, in turn, either has been approved or has not been approved, and so on ad infinitum.”
― Sextus Empiricus (160-210)
"By skepticism … we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance."
― Sextus Empiricus (160-210)
"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 (160-210)