Dogmatist Quotes by Pierre Bayle

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Pierre Bayle has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• 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…
• It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not…
• There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first…
• 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…
• Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the infected flesh of a…
• 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…

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