Michel de Montaigne — Philosophical Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.”

War Fall Reason

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Michel de Montaigne

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in their reality; for nothing comes to us that is not altered and falsified by our Senses. When the compass, the square, and the rule are untrue, all the calculations drawn from them, all the buildings erected by their measure, are of necessity also defective and out of plumb. The uncertainty of our senses renders uncertain everything that they produce.”

Reality Philosophy Squares

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Philosophical

“Indeed, there is no such thing as an altogether ugly woman — or altogether beautiful.”

Beautiful Women

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Philosophical

“All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature”

Honesty Hurtful

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Philosophical

“It is not without good reason, that he who has not a good memory should never take upon him the trade of lying.”

Lying Memories Honesty

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Philosophical

“Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it? .. But in truth I know nothing about the philosophy of education except this: that the greatest and the most important difficulty known to human learning seems to lie in that area which treats how to bring up children and how to educate them.”

Children Art Educational

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Philosophical

“There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.”

Writing Vanity

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Philosophical

“To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.”

Death Oneself

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Philosophical

“I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it.”

School Debate Notion

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Philosophical

“No one but yourself knows whether you are cowardly and cruel, or loyal and devout; others do not see you; they surmise you by uncertain conjectures; they perceive not so much your nature as your art.”

Art Loyal Conjecture

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Philosophical

“There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.”

Men Law Action

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Philosophical

“Eloquence is an engine invented to manage and wield at will the fierce democracy, and, like medicine to the sick, is only employed in the paroxysms of a disordered state.”

Democracy Sick Medicine

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