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    Pierre Bayle

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


    — Pierre Bayle

    #intolerance #peace #source #thus #tolerance

    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 that is done. ↗


    — Pierre Bayle

    #am #bottom #done #everything #full

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


    — Pierre Bayle

    #know #little #much #too #too much

    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. ↗


    — Pierre Bayle

    #down #entirely #false #generation #illusion

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


    — Pierre Bayle

    #history #human #human race #misfortunes #nothing

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


    — Pierre Bayle

    #antiquity #assurance #general #opinion #truth

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


    — Pierre Bayle

    #aptly #author #being #book #first

    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. ↗


    — Pierre Bayle

    #author #being #book #finds #first






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    Bayle remained in Rotterdam until his death on 28 December 1706 and was buried there in the Waalse Kerk where Jurieu would be buried as well seven years later. 1740)
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    "Pensées Diverses sur l'Occasion de la Comète" (1682) translated as "Various Thoughts on the Occasion of the Comet" (2000) by Robert C.

    Pierre Bayle (French: [bɛl]; 18 November 1647 – 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary publiPierre Bayled beginning in 1695. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of the toleration of divergent beliefs his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment. Bayle was a self-pronounced Protestant and as a fideist he advocated a separation between the spheres of faith and reason on the grounds of God being incomprehensible to man.

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