Our first extract is a passage in which the writer supposes a skeptic of the more shallow, trifling sort, to speak.
But his triumphs may be said to have come to an end when Sainte-Beuve was ready to pronounce, as he did, that this defender of Christianity was a skeptic at heart, this preacher and praiser of purity was a libertine in life.
This skepticrepresents his own state of mind in the following strain as of soliloquy: "I do not know who put me into the world, nor what the world is, nor what I am myself.
His school was inspired by the Geist der stets verneint, and the term Skeptic was first devised to describe its attitude.
With these searching questions the Skeptic cut at the root of all belief, and the problems which they raise have dominated philosophy down to the present day.
To him of light and shade the laws No forest skeptic taught; Their living and eternal Cause His truer instinct sought.
And yet it is evident that a number of eminent thinkers, and not a few of the most skeptic philosophers even, have believed in the occurrence of such visits by inmates of Sheol.
The townspeople at first were skeptic and laughed at his reports, but soon the black visitor was seen on the ramparts of the town also and created within the walls the same sensation as up at the castle.
I affirmed that he was not religious in his youth--that he was a skeptic in Indiana.
The mere skeptic who has no settled convictions--who has never examined the evidences against historical Christianity--may become a sincere believer in the Christian religion.
But the gem-cutter's son does not look like a simpleton; and he is a skeptic into the bargain, and believes in nothing.
And thus the skeptic will be convinced, in spite of his own doctrine.
And the skeptic will please take notice that this extraordinary manifestation is neither enlarged nor magnified, but that it actually happened precisely as is here set down.
And let us not overlook the fact that in these manifestations there was to be found a palpable reality, a positive marvel, well calculated to lay hold of a skepticlike Clifton.
Yes, in that tale that is told, in that skeptic history, there is indeed a great moral.
What has our skeptic to do with the future world or with spiritual relations?
The man read certain passages, but the skeptic said again, "I don't believe a word of it.
A Christian man was once talking to a skeptic who said he did not believe the Bible.
The man kept on reading until finally the skeptic was convicted; and the other added: "When I have proved a good sword, I keep using it.
I KNOW nothing that will upset an honest skeptic quicker than fulfilled prophecy.
A moment's inspection of our series of portraits will convince the skeptic that this trait, next to the prevalent dark hair and eyes and the swarthy skin, is the most distinctive among the chosen people.
I never met with a skeptic who had read more or knew more on historical or religious subjects, or who was better acquainted with things in general, except Theodore Parker.
We must not therefore expect a good lecture, or an able book, to cure a skepticof his doubts at once.
A belief in Christ gives one a power to do good to mankind which no skeptic can have.
We never did hear what business "The Sheik" did in Albany because he was roaring at a skeptic about cabbage.
The skeptic made some timid observation about onions.
Since his pen has been stopped by death, those very discourses have led many a skeptic in from the cold storm which beat about him, and given him a place at the warm, cheerful fireside of Christian faith.
The skeptic returned to France, wrote other works, settled near the romantic shore of Lake Geneva, and returned honored, great, and feasted to Paris.
No skeptic should forget that the real philosophy of history is the march of Providence through the ages.
A lone skeptic had little chance to beat back the wave of excitement created by the young Robinson's stories.
He was not altogether a skeptic about witchcraft in general, but his purpose was to show that the evidence against Jane Wenham was weak.
The harsh reproof to Godwin for his contemptuous allusion to Christ before a well-trained child proves that he is not a skeptic [?
No skeptic will deny any man's right to such a belief, but this little grain of hope has been the foundation for such extensive and heartless mediumistic frauds that it is constantly losing ground.
A whole party of believers affirm that they saw Mr. Home float out of one window and in at another, while a single honest skeptic declares that Mr. Home was sitting in his chair all the time.
He the shrewd, skeptic poet unaware Feels comforted and stilled, and knows not whence Falls this unwonted peace on heart and sense.
What tortures did my skeptic soul endure, At war against herself and all mankind!
At this the skeptic struck his breast with defiant pride, exclaiming: "I do not fear them, and dare to proclaim openly the conclusions of my thoughts.
But to the skeptic nothing was sure: and if he would deny the existence of the Divinity, he naturally must disbelieve that of any beings in a sphere between the supersensual immortals and sentient human creatures.
The skeptic of the type of Hume has never been in good repute with those who stand closest to the accepted religious truths.
The ideal man, and the ideal of human life, even in the apprehension of those who most rejoice in the advances of science, is neither the finikin skeptic in the laboratory nor the animated slide-rule.
I defy you, the skeptic and disabused man, to prove to me the contrary.
Finally, the impressionist or skeptic would maintain that an alleged aesthetic principle would necessarily be abstracted from extant works of art; hence could not be applied to new art.
They bound him hand and foot, the believer testified that the binding was solid, and the skeptic went to his seat, playfully stepping upon the toes of his scoffing friends.
The skeptic remained scornfully in his seat, and so it was left for the believer to announce that not a cord had been touched.
They came forward, the believer with a business-like air, which showed practice, and the young skeptic blushing and ill at ease.
When, therefore, the skeptic insists that prophecy be given literally, in the style of history written in advance, he simply requires that God would make it utterly unintelligible.
Take another instance of preservation, so remarkable amid the surrounding destruction, that it arrested the attention and admiration of the author of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, skeptic and scoffer though he was.
But what reason has the skeptic to believe that this invariable law of nature shall ever be repealed, and this inevitable progress of all things to perdition be arrested?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skeptic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: adherent; agnostic; doubtful; dubious; incredulous; philosopher; schismatic; skeptical
