Top 6 Sextus Empiricus Quotes (2025 Update)

Sextus Empiricus Quote: “Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.”

1. “Skepticism relieved two terrible diseases that afflicted mankind: anxiety and dogmatism.”

Sextus Empiricus Quote: “The wise man is always similar to himself.”

2. “The wise man is always similar to himself.”

3. “Those who claim for themselves to judge the truth are bound to possess a criterion of truth. This criterion, then, either is without a judge’s approval or has been approved. But if it is without approval, whence comes it that it is truthworthy? For no matter of dispute is to be trusted without judging. And, if it has been approved, that which approves it, in turn, either has been approved or has not been approved, and so on ad infinitum.”

— Sextus Empiricus

4. “Plato, quite decadently, wore an earring while young.”

— Sextus Empiricus

5. “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.”

— Sextus Empiricus

6. “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.”

— Sextus Empiricus

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