WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/74995/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Chamfort</b></a></p><blockquote>I once heard an orthodox person denouncing those who discuss articles of faith. “Gentlemen,” he said naïvely, “a true Christian does not examine what he is ordered to believe. Dogma is like a bitter pill: if you chew it, you will never be able to swallow it.”<br> <br><i>[J’ai entendu un dévot, parlant contre des gens qui discutent des articles de foi, dire naïvement: «Messieurs, un vrai chrétien n’examine point ce qu’on lui ordonne de croire. Tenez, il en est de cela comme d’une pillule amère, si vous la mâchez, jamais vous ne pourrez l’avaler.»]</i></blockquote><p><b>Nicolas Chamfort</b> (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)<br><i>Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionnée],</i> Part 2 “Characters and Anecdotes <i>[Caractères et Anecdotes],”</i> ¶ 1148 (1795) [tr. Hutchinson (1902)]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: <a href="https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/74995/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/749…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=belief" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>belief</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=Christianity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christianity</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=creed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>creed</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=articlesoffaith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>articlesoffaith</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=credo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>credo</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=doctrine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doctrine</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dogma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dogma</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=doubt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>doubt</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>faith</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=indoctrination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>indoctrination</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=questioning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>questioning</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=truebeliever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truebeliever</span></a></p>