Sextus Empiricus Quotes

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

  Sexto Empírico

  Science, Firsts, Judgment

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• To every argument an equal argument is opposed.

  Sexto Empírico

  Argument, Equal

  Sextus (Empiricus.), Philip Paul Hallie (1985). “Selections from the Major Writings on Scepticism, Man, & God”, p.85, Hackett Publishing

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

  Sexto Empírico

  Two, Anxiety, Disease

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• El escepticismo es una capacidad, o actitud mental, que opone las apariencias a los juicios de cualquier tipo, con el resultado de que, debido a la equipolencia de los objetos y razones así opuestos, somos llevados primero a un estado de suspense mental y después a un estado de "imperturbabilidad" o quietud.

  Sexto Empírico

  Attitude, Suspense, Owing

  Sextus (Empiricus.) (1933). “Sextus Empiricus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• 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.

  Sexto Empírico

  Self, Desire, Speech

  Sextus (Empiricus.) (1933). “Sextus Empiricus”, Loeb Classical Library

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• Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.

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  Plato, Young, Earrings

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• The Mode of circular reasoning is the form used when the proof itself which ought to establish the matter of inquiry requires confirmation derived from the matter; in this case, being unable to assume either in order to establish the other, we suspend judgement about both.

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  Order, Judgement, Inquiry

  Sextus (Empiricus.) (1993). “Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism”

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• 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: the truth in real things is that there are atoms and void. 'By convention sweet', he says, 'by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour: but in reality atoms and void.'

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  Sweet, Real, Science

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