C. P. Scott
British journalist, publisher and politician (1846-1932)
French philosopher and writer
Pierre Baylewas a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. He is best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary, whose publication began in 1697.
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Pierre Baylewas a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. He is best known for his Historical and Critical Dictionary, whose publication began in 1697. Many of the more controversial ideas in the book were hidden away in the voluminous footnotes, or they were slipped into articles on seemingly uncontroversial topics. Bayle is commonly regarded as a forerunner of the Encyclopedistes of the mid-18th century.
A Huguenot, Bayle fled to the Dutch Republic in 1681 because of religious persecution in France. Bayle was a notable advocate of religious toleration, and his skeptical philosophy had a significant influence on the subsequent growth and development of the European Age of Enlightenment. Leibniz’s theodicy was formed in response to Bayle.
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
French philosopher and writer
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.
French philosopher and writer
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.
French philosopher and writer
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.
French philosopher and writer
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the thought.
French philosopher and writer
I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
French philosopher and writer
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder and squabbling.
French philosopher and writer
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
French philosopher and writer