The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.
When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.