American literature has, since the time of the Puritans, featured the jeremiad as a prolonged complaint, a prophet's indictment of his society characteristic of work such as the muckrakers' novels or Allan Ginsberg's “Howl.” Doctorow struggles to...
The arts save us from a dreary skepticism.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
I don't really believe in the paranormal; I'm a skeptic through and through.
Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers.
In a Photoshopped world, only the skeptical eye prevails.
It's not true that skeptics consider nothing sacred. They consider freedom sacred.
It isn't true that skeptics consider nothing sacred. They consider freedom sacred.
I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I'm sensitive to that.
I don't believe in astrology; I'm a Sagittarius and we're skeptical.
Still it is true that many same-sex couples want nothing more than to join society as fully integrated socially responsible family-centered taxpaying Little League-coaching nation-serving respectably married citizens. So why not welcome them in Why n...
In the modern industrialized Western world, where I come from, the person whom you choose to marry is perhaps the single most vivid representation of your own personality. Your spouse becomes the most gleaming possible mirror through which your emoti...
I was struck - not for the first time in my years of travel - by how isolating contemporary American society can seem by comparison. Where I came from, we have shriveled down the notion of what constitutes 'a family unit' to such a tiny scale that it...
The major religions on the Earth contradict each other left and right. You can't all be correct. And what if all of you are wrong? It's a possibility, you know. You must care about the truth, right? Well, the way to winnow through all the differing c...
There is an uncharacteristic radicalism to Lewis’s further suggestion that if we can find “even one reader to whom the cheap little book with its double columns and the lurid daub on its cover had been a lifelong delight, who had read and reread ...
Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.
Skepticism is healthy in matters of the intellect, but disastrous in matters of the heart.
There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Skepticism: the mark and even the pose of the educated mind.
