Religion Quote by Pierre Bayle Download Open image ““In the matters of religion, it is very hard to deceive a man, and very hard to undeceive him.”” — Pierre Bayle ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion
“A person must be in the religious search not for the sake of religious experiences, which can deceive, but for the sake of truth.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“This explained to me--and I suppose, forgave me--my inability to see the face of this man, because whoever must deceive us in order to… — Michael Ennis Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what every man wishes, that he also believes to be true.” — Demosthenes Copy Share Image
“the easiest thing of all is to deceive oneself, for what a man wishes, he generally believes to be true!” — Eric Jerome Dickey Copy Share Image
“for a man of religion he was one of the most untrustworthy men I had ever met. He would fit right in” — David Clark Copy Share Image
“…he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived.” — Machiavelli Niccolo Copy Share Image
“Men corrupted religion; and a man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow… — Heather Graham Copy Share Image
“Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves-- to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate… — James L. Sutter Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each me wishes, that he also believes is true.” — Demosthenes 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
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 furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp. — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
Christianity was never meant to be defined by its disciplines, but by its passions. — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image