"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."

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

Sextus Empiricus

#Self Quotes #Desire Quotes #Speech Quotes

“God, of thy goodness, give me Thyself; for Thou art enough for me, and I can ask for nothing less that can be full honor to Thee. And if I ask anything that is less, ever Shall I be in want, for only in Thee have I all.”
“What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.”
“Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.”

Source : Francine Pascal (2003). “Sam (#2) and Escape (#26)”, p.157, Simon and Schuster
“Life pulls at bewildered humanity in so many ways! Blessed is the woman who makes her life a career of stimulating the courage of others.”
“The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God.”
“Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.”
“It is not possible to find a landscape, which if painted precisely as it is, will not make an impressive picture. No one knows, till he has tried, what strange beauty and subtle composition is prepared to his hand by Nature.”
“How do we identify ourselves, and how do we settle into other people's expectations for our identity?”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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