"Reason is like a runner who doesn't know that the race is over, or, like Penelope, constantly undoing what it creates.... It is better suited to pulling things down than to building them up, and better at discovering what things are not, than what they are."
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Pierre Bayle
1647 – 1706
französischer Philosoph und Schriftsteller
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