It is distinctly asserted by the modern school that the right state in which to approach everything is a state of enlightened scepticism.

We are to consider everything doubtful, until it is proved certain, or unless, from its very nature, it is not possible to doubt it.
Nor is this all; for, apart from these modern canons, the question of life's worth has, as a matter of fact, been always recognised as in a certain sense an open one.

The greatest intellects of the world, in all ages, have been at times inclined to doubt it.

And these times have not seemed to them times of blindness; but on the contrary, of specially clear insight.

Scales, as it were, have fallen from their eyes for a moment or two, and the beauty and worth of existence has appeared to them as but a deceiving show.