The Hot Word
Daily Crossword
Word Games
Crossword Solver
Tools
Mobile
Android
iPad
iPhone
More
Apps...
Quotation by Pierre Bayle
More Quotes From
Pierre Bayle (6)Additional Sources
Historical and Critical Dictionary Selections, trans. by R.H. Popkin, Hackett, Indianapolis (1991)Philosophical Commentary on the Words "Compel Them to Come In," pp. 73-74, ed. Jean-Michel Gros (1686)quoted in preface to Cardinal Polignac's Anti-LucrereRelated Subjects
truth (8) past, the (7) Europe (7) time (6) politics (6) art (6) science (6) knowledge (6) poets (5) poetry (5)
Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.
Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), French skeptical thinker. Historical and Critical Dictionary, "Manicheans," Remark D, p. 147, Selections, trans. by R.H. Popkin, Hackett, Indianapolis (1991).
Negative theory of history.
Negative theory of history.
Surprise me with a
The Columbia World of Quotations © 1996, Columbia University Press.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Except as otherwise permitted by written agreement, the following are prohibited: copying substantial portions or the entirety of the work in machine readable form, making multiple printouts thereof, and other uses of the work inconsistent with U.S. and applicable foreign copyright and related laws.
