Quotes by Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle

Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The Answer to this; by which it is prov’d, that the literal Sense does in reality authorize the stirring up Persecutions against the Cause of Truth, and that an erroneous Conscience has the same Rights as an enlighten’d Conscience.

Atheism

Reality

Rights

Consider, I pray, whether you are not renouncing all shame and sincerity to advance such principles. Because a comet appears in a group of stars which the ancients thought fit to call the Virgin, therefore, shall our women be barren, or have frequent miscarriages, or die old maids. I know of nothing which hangs so ill together! To offer such things in seriousness, shows the greatest contempt of mankind, and the most scandalous lying impunity.

Lying

Miscarriage

Stars

Do you doubt that the least effects of nature were not used as marks of the wrath of heaven? It was to the interest of pontiffs, priests, and augurs, as much as it is to the interest of lawyers and doctors that there should be lawsuits and sickness. No wonder they took care that the people should not grow slack in their religion.

Doctors

People

Wrath

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.

Done

Said

Soul

I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.

Giving

Two

Wish

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

Knows

Littles

Too Much

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos’d Truth.

Advancement

Atheism

Wells

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

Citations

Deceiving

Prudence

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

Crime

History

Weakness

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

Atheism

Matter

Men

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Acceptance

Advancement

Affliction

Assurance

Atheism

Atheist

Believe

Book

Brotherhood

Christian

Christianity

Citations

Crime

Deceiving

Diversity

Doctors

Done

Errors

Evil

Firsts

Generations

Giving

Heaven

History

Humans

Impression

Justice

Knows

Law

Littles

Lying

Mad

Matter

May

Men

Miscarriage

Numbers

Offering

Opinion

People

Philosophy

Prejudice

Prudence

Race

Reality

Religious

Rights

Said

Soul

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Quotes by Pierre Bayle

Pierre Bayle

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.

I get up and retire when I wish. I go out if I wish and I do not go out if I do not desire to do so, except for the two days on which I give lectures.

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

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos’d Truth.

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.

If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

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