Bayle Quotes

#1. This is Bayle's meeting, isn't it?" Kennet asked, looking over his shoulder at the large bronze clock hanging on the wall. "Doesn't he know it's rude to arrive late to your own party?"
"When you arrived late to your own birthday party, you told me that was arriving in style," Linnea reminded him.

Amanda Hocking

#2. 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

#3. When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.

J. Tillman

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

Pierre Bayle

#5. There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.

Pierre Bayle

#6. 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.

Pierre Bayle

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

Pierre Bayle

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

Pierre Bayle

#9. 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.

Pierre Bayle

#10. The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

Pierre Bayle

#11. I know Haye's a good fighter as well and he beat Mormeck but Mormeck is not Enzo Maccarinelli and does not have the speed, stamina or punching power.

Joe Calzaghe

#12. No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

Pierre Bayle

#13. 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.

Pierre Bayle

#14. One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

Pierre Bayle

#15. All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

George Eliot

#16. The best way to honor your dreams is to get them done!

Robin Sharma

#17. Be positive, be positive. It's rough out there, but don't succumb. Don't succumb to the cynicism in the world.

Cameron Crowe

#18. It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.

Pierre Bayle

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

Ravi Zacharias

#22. 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.

Pierre Bayle

#23. It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

Hugo Weaving

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

Pierre Bayle

#25. The movement of comets is part of the ordinary works of nature which, without regard to the happiness or misery of mankind, are transported from one part of the heavens to another by virtue of the general laws of motion.

Pierre Bayle

#26. 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

#27. There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

Pierre Bayle

#28. There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.

Lauren King

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

Pierre Bayle