Michel de Montaigne — Philosophical Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.”

Thinking Essence Thoughtful

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“What kind of truth is this which is true on one side of a mountain and false on the other?”

Kind Sides Mountain

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Philosophical

“The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.”

Law Morality

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Philosophical

“The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.”

Sides Limits

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Philosophical

“Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others bring trinkets to sell to the crowd for gain; and some there are, and not the worst, who seek no other profit than to look at the show and see how and why everything is done; spectators of the life of other people in order to judge and regulate their own.”

Life Order Games

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Philosophical

“He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents.”

Men Evil Ordinary

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Philosophical

“Words repeated again have as another sound, so another sense.”

Sound

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Philosophical

“As for extraordinary things, all the provision in the world would not suffice.”

World Provision

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Philosophical

“Everyone gives the title of barbarism to everything that is not in use in his own country.”

Giving Country Titles

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Philosophical

“Behold the hands, how they promise, conjure, appeal, menace, pray, supplicate, refuse, beckon, interrogate, admire, confess, cringe, instruct, command, mock and what not besides, with a variation and multiplication of variation which makes the tongue envious.”

Hands Promise Variation

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Philosophical

“The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.”

Light Miracle Ordinary

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Philosophical

“It is far more probable that our senses should deceive us, than that an old woman should be carried up a chimney on a broom stick; and that it is far less astonishing that witnesses should lie, than that witches should perform the acts that were alleged.”

Lying Atheism Sticks

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