Pierre Bayle Quotes

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• It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
• The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
• If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than…
• Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
• I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that…
• It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
• There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that…
• In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
• I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine…
• Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a wound, they then…
• I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
• There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of…

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