"Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions."

Doubt, World, Question, Truth, Philosophy

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"Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions."

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"When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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"Why do I lunge for control instead of joy?...do I thin Jesus grace too impotent to give me the full life...Whenever I am blind to joys well, isn't it because I don't believe in Gods care?"

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

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"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

Gertrude Stein, American Author

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"His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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"Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out."

William Blake, English Poet

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"Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible."

Ambrose Bierce, American Journalist

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"The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France."

Memory

"When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed."

Loss

"Happiness is the longing for repetition."

Happiness

"Her weakness was aggressive and kept forcing him to capitulate until eventually he lost his strength and was transformed into the rabbit in her arms ."

Emotion

"Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love."

Love

"How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?"

Anger

"Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace."

Peace

"Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness."

Emotion

"And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle, it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition."

Time

"The situation is very slightly solemn and thus embarrassing, as are all such situations when after the initial lovemaking, the lovers confront a future they are suddenly required to take on."

Love