#skepticism

My doubt is terrible. — Nothing can stop me — it is a hunger of damnation — I can devour every argument, every consolation,

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Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?

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Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony.

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Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology.

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How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?

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Suppose someone said: ‘What do you believe, Wittgenstein? Are you a sceptic? Do you know whether you will survive death?’

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Anyone who seriously intends to become a philosopher must ‘once in his life’ withdraw into himself and attempt, within himself,...

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