Agrippa the Skeptic Quotes on Knowledge
Agrippa the Skeptic was a Greek Pyrrhonist philosopher of the first century AD, traditionally the author of the famous Five Modes of skeptical argument, preserved in Sextus Empiricus's Outlines of Pyrrhonism: the disagreement of philosophers, the regress of reasons, the relativity of perception, the unprovable hypothesis, and the circularity of justification. This page collects quotes attributed to Agrippa the Skeptic on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Agrippa the Skeptic:
“Every philosophical claim invites either an infinite regress, a circular argument, or an unproven hypothesis.”
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Attributed to Agrippa the Skeptic:
“Where the philosophers disagree, the wise man does not yet take sides.”
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Attributed to Agrippa the Skeptic:
“Things appear differently to different observers, and we have no neutral standpoint from which to choose.”
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Attributed to Agrippa the Skeptic:
“What we offer as evidence today must itself find its evidence tomorrow, and so on without end.”
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Attributed to Agrippa the Skeptic:
“Suspension of judgment is not the death of philosophy; it is its proper humility.”