“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
Karlheinz Deschner (1924–2014) German writer and activist
Meine Skepsis bewahrt mich davor, Fanatiker zu werden wovor noch kein Glaube geschützt hat. <br class="br"> deschner.info http://www.deschner.info/index.htm?/de/person/zitate.htm
“You don't change what you love or you never loved it to begin with.”
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Nauti Dreams
Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer
Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
Anti-Religious Thought In The Eighteenth Century http://www.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~mward/gkc/books/anti_religious_thought.txt; first published in "An Outline of Christianity : The Story of our Civilization", Vol. IV, Christianity and Modern Thought (1926)
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge (1866) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/thx1410.txt <br class="br">1860s <br class="br">Context: The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. And it cannot be otherwise, for every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority, the cherishing of the keenest scepticism, the annihilation of the spirit of blind faith; and the most ardent votary of science holds his firmest convictions, not because the men he most venerates hold them; not because their verity is testified by portents and wonders; but because his experience teaches him that whenever he chooses to bring these convictions into contact with their primary source, Nature — whenever he thinks fit to test them by appealing to experiment and to observation — Nature will confirm them. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
“What is belief - what is faith - if you don't continue it after failure?”
Brandon Sanderson (1975) American fantasy writer
Source: The Final Empire
John Cowper Powys (1872–1963) British writer, lecturer and philosopher
Source: The Complex Vision (1920), Chapter I
Context: My answer to the question "Why do we philosophize?" is as follows. We philosophize for the same reason that we move and speak and laugh and eat and love. In other words, we philosophize because man is a philosophical animal.… We may be as sceptical as we please. Our very scepticism is the confession of an implicit philosophy.