Quotes by Pierre Bayle

• It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
• 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.
• There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
• Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
• 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.
• I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
• 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.
• The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.