How to Keep an Open Mind (Outlines of Pyrrhonism)

„The skeptical ability is one that produces oppositions among things that appear and things that are thought in any way whatsoever, from which, because of the equal strength in the opposing objects and accounts, we come first to suspension of judgment, and after that to tranquility.”

„the person who has the opinion that anything is by nature good or bad is disturbed all the time. When the things thought to be good are not available to him, he believes he is being persecuted by things that are by nature bad, and he pursues those that (as he thinks) are good; but upon getting these, he falls into even more disturbance, both because of being excited beyond reason and measure, and because, fearing a change, he does everything in order not to lose the things he thinks are good. But the person who is indefinite about things good or bad in their nature neither flees nor pursues anything intensely, and for this reason has tranquility.”

„the body is a sort of replica of the soul.”

„Different men delight in different deeds.”

„If fine and wise had the same nature for all / There wouldn't be conflict and strife among humans.”

„we'll maybe be able to say how each of the actual objects appears, from the standpoint of each difference, but what it is in respect of its nature we will not be able to state. For either we're going to trust all humans or just some. But if we trust all, we'll be trying our hand at something impossible: accepting things that are opposed.”

„No one can consult all humanity and figure out what pleases the most.”

„A way of life is a choice of a life, or of a certain practice, that involves one person or many.”

„A mythical belief is an acceptance of things that didn't happen and are made up.”

„a dogmatic supposition is an acceptance of a matter that seems to be confirmed through reasoning by analogy or some kind of demonstration.”

„We assent without opinions to what it has found trustworthy and direct our opposition to the things privately fabricated by the dogmatists.”

„no one could conceive a horse without first having learned the form of a horse. Also, what is conceived ought to be conceived as somewhere.”

„if the things that have an effect by nature have the same effect on everyone, but when it comes to the so-called goods, we don't all get the same effect, nothing is by nature good.”

„the things that seem to some to be bad, others pursue as good.”

„if things that are by nature something-or-other naturally have the same effect on everyone, but the things said to be bad don't have the same effect on everyone, nothing is by nature bad.”