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Pierre Bayle Quotes: It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.
         

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


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It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.



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No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.



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



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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.



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





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