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"Jake" <theapplemall@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> things. The
> academicians would have won. But this dulls it and troubles the dogmatists
> to the glory of the sceptical crowd, which consists in this doubtful
> ambiguity and in a certain doubtful dimness from which our doubts cannot
> take away all the clearness, nor our own natural lights chase away all the
> darkness.
>
> 393. It is a singular thing to consider that there are people in the world
> who, having renounced all the laws of God and nature, have made laws for
> themselves which they strictly obey, as, for instance, the soldiers of
> Mahomet, robbers, heretics, etc. It is the same with logicians. It seems
> that their license must be without any limits or barriers, since they have
> broken through so many that are so just and sacred.
>
> 394. All the principles of sceptics, stoics, atheists, etc., are true. But
> their conclusions are false, because the opposite principles are also
> true.
>
> 395. Instinct, reason.--We have an incapacity of proof, insurmountable by
> all dogmatism. We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.
>
> 396. Two things instruct man about his whole nature; instinct and
> experience.
>
> 397. The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be
> miserable.
> A tree does not know
>
>