Michel de Montaigne — Philosophical Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.”

Natural Overcoming Altered

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.”

Mind Ignorance Simplicity

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Philosophical

“Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.”

Looks

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Philosophical

“We have power over nothing except our will.”

Self Respect

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Philosophical

“Nor is it enough to toughen up his soul; you must also toughen up his muscles.”

Soul Enough

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Philosophical

“There is a huge gulf between the man who follows the conventions and laws of his country and the man who sets out to regiment them and to change them.”

Men Country Law

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Philosophical

“Peoples nurtured on freedom and self-government judge any other form of polity to be deformed and unnatural. Those who are used to monarchy do the same .”

Self Government Judging

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Philosophical

“Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.”

Political Made Vices

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Philosophical

“We find ourselves more taken with the running up and down, the games, and puerile simplicities of our children, than we do, afterward, with their most complete actions; as if we had loved them for our sport, like monkeys, and not as men.”

Children Running Sports

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Philosophical

“An ancient father says that a dog we know is better company than a man whose language we do not understand.”

Men Father Dog

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Philosophical

“Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.”

Men Running Distance

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Philosophical

“I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book.”

Book Design Ink And Paper

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