Dervish Skepsis as a Mode of Faith

"Even for the believer in revelation, skepsis may be an indispensable way of faith. A man who does not 'confess' need not be a skeptic. His very faith may bar the formulated creed. Confessing a creed, as a statement of absolute truth worded in human language, seems to be a fatal act, for it divides people and opens the chasm of uncommunicativeness if accompanied by the demand that others join in it, as in the language of absolute truth. Opposition to confessing in words--rather than in actions and in the way of life--is not skepticism. It is faith itself that may keep a skeptical eye on its own statements."

--Karl Jaspers, Philosophical Faith and Revelation (tr., 1967), pp. 85-86.