Democritus sometimes does away with what appears to the senses, and says that none of these appears according to truth but only according to opinion:…

- Sextus Empiricus

To every argument an equal argument is opposed.

- Sextus Empiricus

Scepticism is an ability, or mental attitude, which opposes appearances to judgments in any way whatsoever, with the result that,owing to the equipol…

- Sextus Empiricus

Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.

- Sextus Empiricus

The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived fr…

- Sextus Empiricus

The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists.

- Sextus Empiricus

Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.

- Sextus Empiricus

By skepticism . . . we arrive first at suspension of judgment, and second at freedom from disturbance.

- Sextus Empiricus