skeptikos

Updated: July 11, 2025

For the theologian, as for the advocate, dogma, law, is something given a starting-point which admits of discussion only in respect of its application and its most exact interpretation. Hence it follows that the theological or advocatory spirit is in its principle dogmatical, while the strictly scientific and purely rational spirit is sceptical, skeptikos that is, investigative.

Miguel de Unamuno - Tragic Sense Of Life