Quips from Montaigne
I thought I'd share some quotable quips as I encounter them in the Essays of (from the 2003 printing of M.A. Screech's 1987 translation):
Nothing is really in our power but our will.... P. 28
where I seek myself I cannot find myself; I discover myself more by accident, than by inquiring into my judgement. p. 40
a powerful imagination generates the event. p. 109
in the study I am making of our manners and our motives, fabulous testimonies - provided they remain possible - can do service as well as true ones. p. 119
Only fools have made up their minds and are certain. p. 170
I cannot believe...that reason cannot produce the same effects as habit....
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays, p. 273
"Does knowing mean nothing to you, unless somebody else knows that you know it?"
Persius - cited p. 274
Nothing is really in our power but our will.... P. 28
where I seek myself I cannot find myself; I discover myself more by accident, than by inquiring into my judgement. p. 40
a powerful imagination generates the event. p. 109
in the study I am making of our manners and our motives, fabulous testimonies - provided they remain possible - can do service as well as true ones. p. 119
Only fools have made up their minds and are certain. p. 170
I cannot believe...that reason cannot produce the same effects as habit....
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays, p. 273
"Does knowing mean nothing to you, unless somebody else knows that you know it?"
Persius - cited p. 274
Comments (6)
...there is no more reliable witness than each man is to himself. p. 711
Since men are not intelligent enough to be adequately paid in good coin let counterfeit coin be used as well. p. 715
Now there's a standard
:)