There had been a distinct satisfaction in my mind before, that his scepticism had been so entirely defeated.

Something in it I felt was like my own sensation when Simson in the midst of his scepticism was struck dumb.

It remained for later artists, intoxicated with antique loveliness and corroded with worldly scepticism, to reproduce the outward semblance of Greek deities under the pretence of setting forth the myths of Christianity.

In the middle of a positive and worldly age, declining fast to frigid scepticism and political corruption, he set the final touch of technical art upon the devotion transmitted from earlier and more enthusiastic centuries.

"Such a Writer can have little else to do, but to new model the Paradoxes of ancient Scepticism.

Mr. H.G. Wells faces this fact in that extremely stimulating essay on 'Scepticism of the Instrument,' which he has appended to his Modern Utopia.

This fact, so lightly touched upon, has given me, in spite of all my scepticism, many a bitter pang; therefore I resolved to follow my friend's advice.

This, your scientific method, this scepticism, this criticism you have implanted in the soul till they have become a second nature.

You permit me to go to church if I like; but you have poisoned me with scepticism to such a degree that I have grown sceptical even with regard to you,sceptical in regard to my own scepticism; and I do not know, I do not know.

You permit me to go to church if I like; but you have poisoned me with scepticism to such a degree that I have grown sceptical even with regard to you,sceptical in regard to my own scepticism; and I do not know, I do not know.

But our scepticism is not an open negation; it is rather a sorrowful, anxious suspicion that perhaps there is nothing,a dense fog around our minds that stifles the breath and hides from us the light.

I go to church because I am a sceptic in regard to my own scepticism.

My scepticism debars me from all firm convictions.

I am nothing; scepticism is sapping my whole system; I am not happy, and am very tired.

Before he was married he said to me: "There are two things I never approach with scepticism, and do not criticise: to me as a literary man, the community is a dogma; as a private individual, the beloved woman."

Have I a right to marry her,to link that fresh budding life, full of simple faith in God and the world, to my doubts, my spiritual impotence, my hopeless scepticism, my criticism and nerves?

Ah, if I but knew that whatever view I take or principle I confess would withstand the blasting scepticism of to-morrow or the days following, I would make it my canon of life, and float along with sails unfurled, like Sniatynski, in the light, instead of groping my way in darkness and solitude.

How futile, how miserable, appears to me my scepticism in presence of that immense power of faith that, stronger even than love, triumphs over death at the very moment when it extinguishes life.

With a nature poisoned by scepticism, I am always prone to suspect and misjudge those around me; but if it should be proved that I misjudged this woman, I should feel truly guilty,because her goodness to me is quite extraordinary.

In fact, I was trying to persuade myself that the whole thing was an illusion, and I did not like to revive in their intensity the hated impressions of the past nightor to risk the constancy of my scepticism, by recounting the tale of my sufferings.

Yet I went on, as men will do, like persevering charlatans and impostors, who tire people into credulity by the mere force of reiteration; so I hoped to win myself over at last to a comfortable scepticism about the ghost.

He was able to apply himself to business again, and to study, although now with much less than his former ardor; the scepticism for which both his education and his experience of life had paved the way, had taken lasting hold upon his mind.

We may seek it in the uncertainty and hovering between belief and scepticism, earnest and play, reality and imaginationsuch as can only exist in art, or in life when life approaches to the condition of an artwhich we find in the scenes where Orlando courts his mistress in the person of the youth who is but his mistress in disguise.

Indeed, the scepticism of that generation was the most uncompromising that the world has known; for it did not even trouble to deny: it simply ignored.

An innate scepticism, a profound levity, an antipathy to enthusiasm that wavered between laughter and disgust, combined with an unswerving devotion to the exacting and arduous ideals of social intercoursesuch were the characteristics of the brilliant group of men and women who had spent their youth at the Court of the Regent, and dallied out their middle age down the long avenues of Sceaux.