Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Philosophy

Quotes about: Philosophy

• Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Ignorance, Progress

  Michel de Montaigne (1866). “Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Journey Into Italy, and Letters”, p.355

• I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Flower, Together

  Michel de Montaigne, William Hazlitt (1845). “The Works of Michael de Montaigne: Comprising His Essays, Letters, Journey Through Germany and Italy. With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices, &c. &c”, p.489

• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Children, Educational

• 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?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Children, Philosophy

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• Any time and any place can be used to study: his room, a garden, is table, his bed; when alone or in company; morning and evening. His chief study will be Philosophy, that Former of good judgement and character who is privileged to be concerned with everything.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Morning, Philosophy, Educational

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• Those sciences which govern the morals of mankind, such as Theology and Philosophy, make everything their concern: no activity is so private or so secret as to escape their attention or their jurisdiction.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Secret, Attention

  Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

• 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.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Reality, Squares

• Seeing that the Senses cannot decide our dispute, being themselves full of uncertainty, we must have recourse to Reason; there is no reason but must be built upon another reason: so here we are retreating backwards to infinity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Medicine, Psychology

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

• I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Philosophy, Humble

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.611, Stanford University Press

• Of the opinions of philosophy I most gladly embrace those that are most solid, that is to say, most human and most our own; my opinions, in conformity with my conduct, are low and humble.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Humble

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.855, Stanford University Press

• Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Philosophy, Philosophical

• And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Poetry

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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