"In philosophy, being a sceptic usually means walking a lonely road."
Peter Unger, Ignorance A Case for Scepticism, from the preface.
"Consequently people fight for and against quite irrelevant measures, while the few who have
a rational opinion are not listened to because they do not minister to any one's passions."
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays, 6th impression, pg.14
"All skeptics pretend that, if reason be considered in an abstract view, it furnishes invincible
arguments against itself, and that we could never retain any conviction or assurance, on any
subject, were not the skeptical reasonings so refined and subtle that they are not able to
counterpoise the more solid and more natural arguments derived from the senses and
experience. But it is evident, whenever our arguments lose this advantage and run wide of
common life, that the most refined skepticism comes to be upon a footing with them, and is
able to oppose and counterbalance them. The one has no more weight than the other. The
mind must remain in suspense between them; and it is that very suspense or balance which is
the triumph of skepticism." David Hume, Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion. pg. 8
"As an unbeliever, I ask leave to plead that humanity has been a real gainer from skepticism,
and that the gradual and growing rejection of Christianity -- like the rejection of the faiths
which preceded it -- has in fact added, and will add, to man's happiness and well-being. I
maintain that in physics science is the outcome of skepticism, and that general progress is
impossible without skepticism on matters of religion."
Charles Bradlaugh, Humanity's Gain From Unbelief, introductory sentences of the essay.
Peter Unger, Ignorance A Case for Scepticism, from the preface.
"Consequently people fight for and against quite irrelevant measures, while the few who have
a rational opinion are not listened to because they do not minister to any one's passions."
Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays, 6th impression, pg.14
"All skeptics pretend that, if reason be considered in an abstract view, it furnishes invincible
arguments against itself, and that we could never retain any conviction or assurance, on any
subject, were not the skeptical reasonings so refined and subtle that they are not able to
counterpoise the more solid and more natural arguments derived from the senses and
experience. But it is evident, whenever our arguments lose this advantage and run wide of
common life, that the most refined skepticism comes to be upon a footing with them, and is
able to oppose and counterbalance them. The one has no more weight than the other. The
mind must remain in suspense between them; and it is that very suspense or balance which is
the triumph of skepticism." David Hume, Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion. pg. 8
"As an unbeliever, I ask leave to plead that humanity has been a real gainer from skepticism,
and that the gradual and growing rejection of Christianity -- like the rejection of the faiths
which preceded it -- has in fact added, and will add, to man's happiness and well-being. I
maintain that in physics science is the outcome of skepticism, and that general progress is
impossible without skepticism on matters of religion."
Charles Bradlaugh, Humanity's Gain From Unbelief, introductory sentences of the essay.
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