Contradiction Quote by Pierre Bayle Download Open image “I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.” — Pierre Bayle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Contradiction Dogmatist Know Sceptic Little Dogmatist Sceptic Sceptic Little Too much
The tolerance of the skeptic… accepts the most diverse and indeed the most contradictory opinions, and keeps all his suspicions for the “dogmatist.” — Jean Guitton Copy Share Image
The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The logic of validation allows us to move between the two limits of dogmatism and skepticism. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The skeptic, being a lover of his kind, desires to cure by speech, as best he can, the self-conceit and rashness of the dogmatists. — Sextus Empiricus Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
“In the matters of religion, it is very hard to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.” — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction and between profession and practice - that is to say with a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Contradictions in human character are one of its most consistent notes. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
“The tiny features below, taken together with the gentle mass of Montblanc towering above them, the Vanoise glacier almost invisible in the shimmering distance,… — W.G. Sebald Copy Share Image
I’m a skeptic not because I do not want to believe, but because I want to know. — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ''the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
To exist (in mathematics), said Henri Poincaré, is to be free from contradiction. But mere existence does not guarantee survival. To survive in mathematics… — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
“In these creations, life and symbolic value are not in contradiction: they intensify each other.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“A truth is not necessary, because we negatively are not able to conceive the actual existence of the opposite thereof;but a truth is necessary… — R.L. Dabney Copy Share Image
The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what… — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
