Quotes by Pierre Bayle

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to...

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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than...

#Pierre Bayle

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

#Pierre Bayle

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

#Pierre Bayle

It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the...

#Pierre Bayle

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

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I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from...

#Pierre Bayle

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds...

#Pierre Bayle