“There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.” – Pierre Bayle, philosopher and writer (1647-1706)

This super-skeptic found that in critiquing all the philosophy and religion he could find to think on that there were two underlying principles:

First,  toleration of other viewpoints is paramount.

Second, that too much philosophizing and being engrossed in criticism philosophical or not devours one to the point at which truth cannot be known and the criticism itself is more a destructive point than positive.

There is much our age could learn from this man…