Bayle's 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 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

#3. when a daoist has finished his cultivation, he will be a roaming deity or a wandering immortal. there are mountains and waters in the heavens just as here, and he will stay on one such mountain

Li Hongzhi

#4. 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

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

Pierre Bayle

#6. 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

#7. From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Winston S. Churchill

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

Pierre Bayle

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

Pierre Bayle

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

Pierre Bayle

#11. Man's principle trait is a readiness to believe anything. Otherwise, how could the Church have survived for almost two thousand years in the absense of universal gullibility?

Umberto Eco

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

Pierre Bayle

#13. Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

Dennis Crowley

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

Pierre Bayle

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Pierre Bayle

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

James Frey

#21. He was a crystal of morality among our scientists.

Nikita Khrushchev

#22. What is right is often forgotten by what is convenient.

Bodie Thoene

#23. I don't know if I'll ever truly find my path again, but if I do, you'll always be my favorite detour.

Jewel E. Ann

#24. But wherever we labour, the rule and the profession of the Apostle must be ours; and whatever be our personal mistakes and failures, God grant that our consciences may never accuse us of being ashamed of the Gospel of Christ.

Henry Parry Liddon

#25. 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

#26. Your lungs are changed forever from your first cigarette.

Loni Anderson

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

Pierre Bayle

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

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

Pierre Bayle

#32. A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson