Quote of the day
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Pierre Bayle
Born: November 18, 1647
Died: December 28, 1706 (aged 59)
Bio: Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, published beginning in 1697.
Known for:
- Dictionnaire Historique et Critique (1697)
- Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet
- Bayle--political writings
- Pensées diverses sur la comète