Pierre Bayle#Pierre
A figure from the books
#Pierre
Pierre Bayle · 1647–1706
In the books · 1 chapter
Who this is
“A refugee whose brother died in a French dungeon for his writings answered persecution not with a sword but with a dictionary — whose footnotes quietly armed the entire Enlightenment.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“No one — no king, no church, no majority — has the right to force a conscience, even a mistaken one; and no belief, however old and universal, is true just because everyone repeats it.”
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