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8 quotes by Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle Pierre Bayle Born 18 November 1647 Carla-le-Comte, Kingdom of France Died 28 December 1706 Rotterdam, Dutch Republic Religion Protestantism Era 17th-century philosophy Region Western Philosophy Notable ideas Bayle's skeptical trilemma Influences Descartes, Spinoza Influenced Condorcet, Diderot, Frederick the Great, Hume, des Maizeaux, Mandeville, Maupertuis, Toland, Vico, Voltaire French literature by category French literary...
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It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.

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It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

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

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

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I am a good Protestant, and in the full sense of the term, for from the bottom of my soul, I protest against everything that is said, and everything... →

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There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.

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

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

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