#sceptic

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Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.


William Dunbar


#despair #emotional #full #ironic #mirth

I shall be in Paris in two days. Well, all is finished. The waves of human mediocrity rise to the sky and they will engulf the refuge whose dams I open. Ah! courage leaves me, my heart breaks! O Lord, pity the Christian who doubts, the sceptic who would believe, the convict of life embarking alone in the night, under a sky no longer illumined by the consoling beacons of ancient faith.


Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans


#faiths #mediocrity #paris #sceptic #courage

And here is the point, about myself and my co-thinkers. Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely solely upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake.


Christopher Hitchens


#belief #faith #principles #reason #religion

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.


Richard Lederer


#dark-age #history #medieval #middle-ages #religion

Most people don't believe something can happen until it already has. That's not stupidity or weakness, that's just human nature.


Max Brooks


#scepticism #weakness #zombie #nature

What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition.


Christopher Hitchens


#dislikes #racism #religion #scepticism #stupidity

I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.


Gavin Bryars


#cd #digital #european #friends #hollywood

I always got a bit pissed off with those broadsheet sceptics who make their living being passionately angry about homeopathy, God, synchronicity or whatever, because it's as if they can't get past their emotions, and in their rage they become as faith-driven as the beliefs they criticise. I always said they give scientists a bad name. After all, science has to be about asking unthinkable questions, not closing down debate.


Scarlett Thomas


#religion #scepticism #sceptics #skepticism #skeptics

Scepticism is as important for a good journalist as it is for a good scientist.


Freeman Dyson


#important #journalist #scepticism #scientist

Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.


Victor Hugo


#intelligence #scepticism