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Montaigne is Pyrrhonist par excellence; and undoubtedly p. 180the famous Essays had greatly fascinated Pascal, like many others in his generation. 

From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Nature confounds the Pyrrhonist, and reason the Dogmatist;”— or, as the passage was originally written,— “We cannot be Pyrrhonists without violating nature; we cannot be Dogmatists without renouncing nature.”

From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Ordinarily one does not learn things about oneself from Edmund Gosse, but my discovery that I am a Pyrrhonist is due to that literary man.

From The Merry-Go-Round by Van Vechten, Carl

Both agreed in the unknown nature of the Ding an sich, but this was to the Pyrrhonist the end of all his philosophy; to Kant, however, the beginning.

From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills

Although no Pyrrhonist in thought, he knows too well in experience the depths of Pyrrhonism. 

From Pascal by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)