"Who shall forbid a wise skepticism, seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had?"
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"Skepticism doesn't help you hear."
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"Realism is punishing. Probabilistic skepticism is worse."
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"Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill."
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"The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might."
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"This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?""
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