It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that it is not more strange for an Atheist to live virtuously, than for a Christian to abandon himself to crime! If we believe the last kind of monster, why dispute the existence of the first?
- Pierre Bayle
More Quotes By Pierre Bayle
It is thus tolerance that is the source of peace, and intolerance that is the source of disorder... In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.
Philosophy can be compared to some powders that are so corrosive that, after they have eaten away the... The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses, and disorders of mankind, his readers would... There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of... It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation... Compulsion in the literal Sense is maliciously misrepresented, by supposing it authorizes Violences committed against the Truth. The... No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.
Leave a comment
