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Pierre Bayle Quotes

1647–1706 France

Pierre Bayle (18 November 1647 – 28 December 1706) was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1695.

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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.

... l'exactitude de citer. C'est un talent plus rare que l'on ne pense.

Reason is like a runner who doesn't know that the race is over, or, like Penelope, constantly undoing what it creates.... It is better suited to pulling things down than to building them up, and better at discovering what things are not, than what they are.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Pierre Bayle (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.