Atheism Quote by Pierre Bayle

I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything…

— Pierre Bayle

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

— Pierre Bayle

So that, were it the purpose of God to produce comets as signs of his wrath it would be true to say that he…

— Pierre Bayle

Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of…

— Pierre Bayle

Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it…

— Pierre Bayle

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will…

— Pierre Bayle

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to…

— Pierre Bayle

I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not…

— Pierre Bayle

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

— Pierre Bayle

“In the matters of religion, it is very hard to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.”

— Pierre Bayle

There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of…

— Pierre Bayle

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

— Pierre Bayle