Pierre Bayle

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.

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

The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.

I became a sceptic of one way of seeing the world. And I think it is what started me in my awareness that any worldview is superstitious.

Dogmatists have one advantage: they are poor listeners.