Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced? Is it not better to suspend your convictions than to get mixed up in these seditious and quarrelsome divisions?
Michel de Montaigne
Doubt, Judgment, Wisdom, Human Nature, Critical Thinking
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“When I am attached by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.” Michel de Montaigne
Books, Reading, Mental Health, Solace, Wisdom
Michel de Montaigne Books, Reading, Mental Health, Solace, Wisdom“When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.” Michel de Montaigne
Mindfulness, Presence, Nature, Solitude, Self-awareness
Michel de Montaigne Mindfulness, Presence, Nature, Solitude, Self-awareness“When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.” Michel de Montaigne
Self-perception, Reputation, Human Nature, Communication, Judgment
Michel de Montaigne Self-perception, Reputation, Human Nature, Communication, Judgment“Lucius Arruntius killed himself, he said, to escape both the future and the past.” Michel de Montaigne
Suicide, Time, Escape, Human Condition, Philosophy
Michel de Montaigne Suicide, Time, Escape, Human Condition, Philosophy“Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.” Michel de Montaigne
Education, Wisdom, Ability, Knowledge, Human Development
Michel de Montaigne Education, Wisdom, Ability, Knowledge, Human Development“The world is but a school of inquisition; it is not who shall enter the ring, but who shall run the best courses.” Michel de Montaigne
Life, Competition, Learning, Achievement, Human Experience
Michel de Montaigne Life, Competition, Learning, Achievement, Human Experience“The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing.” Michel de Montaigne
World, Vanity, Emptiness, Philosophy, Human Condition
Michel de Montaigne World, Vanity, Emptiness, Philosophy, Human Condition“The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.” Michel de Montaigne
Spirituality, Metaphysics, Reality, Perception, Unity
Michel de Montaigne Spirituality, Metaphysics, Reality, Perception, Unity“The most universal quality is diversity.” Michel de Montaigne
Diversity, Universality, Human Nature, Perspective, Philosophical Insight
Michel de Montaigne Diversity, Universality, Human Nature, Perspective, Philosophical Insight“T is one and the same Nature that rolls on her course, and whoever has sufficiently considered the present state of things might certainly conclude as to both the future and the past.” Michel de Montaigne
Nature, Time, Philosophy, Observation, Wisdom
Michel de Montaigne Nature, Time, Philosophy, Observation, Wisdom“I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's.” Michel de Montaigne
Reading, Knowledge, Learning, Memory, Individuality
Michel de Montaigne Reading, Knowledge, Learning, Memory, Individuality“Take care that old age does not wrinkle your spirit even more than your face.” Michel de Montaigne
Aging, Spirit, Positivity, Wisdom, Human Nature
Michel de Montaigne Aging, Spirit, Positivity, Wisdom, Human Nature“When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.” Michel de Montaigne
Pain, Pleasure, Philosophy, Human Experience, Perspective
Michel de Montaigne Pain, Pleasure, Philosophy, Human Experience, Perspective“The public weal requires that men should betray, and lie, and massacre.” Michel de Montaigne
Politics, Morality, Society, Human Nature, Critique
Michel de Montaigne Politics, Morality, Society, Human Nature, Critique“It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.” Michel de Montaigne
Order, Privacy, Human Nature, Consistency, Character
Michel de Montaigne Order, Privacy, Human Nature, Consistency, Character“The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of proper consideration.” Michel de Montaigne
Body, Physicality, Human Nature, Self-awareness, Philosophy
Michel de Montaigne Body, Physicality, Human Nature, Self-awareness, Philosophy“To speak less of oneself than what one really is, is folly, not modesty; and to take that for current pay which is under a man's value, is pusillanimity and cowardice.” Michel de Montaigne
Self-worth, Modesty, Honesty, Courage, Human Nature
Michel de Montaigne Self-worth, Modesty, Honesty, Courage, Human Nature“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.” Michel de Montaigne
Love, Education, Childhood, Society, Human Nature
Michel de Montaigne Love, Education, Childhood, Society, Human Nature