Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt.
The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.
We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.
Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.