| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 6062 |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Pierre Bayle (1647–1706), French skeptical thinker. Historical and Critical Dictionary in Selections, p. xviii, n. 5, trans. by R.H. Popkin, Hackett, Indianapolis (1991). Quoted in preface to Cardinal Polignac’s Anti-Lucrere.
Bayle’s critical sceptical attitude. |
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