“So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!”
“Any way, death is so final, isn't it?"Is it?" asked Richard."Sometimes," said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.”
“This is the wisdom of art, the knowledge that beauty perhaps is the one undeniably unique attribute of the human.”
“don’t confuse scepticism as an attitude, or a method, with scepticism as a philosophy. Socrates was sceptical in temperament, and his method was to question everything. But he believed in absolute truth; he was no sceptic.”
“He blinked at the sun and dreamt that perhaps he might snare it and spare it as it went down to its resting place amidst the distant hills.”
“He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.”