“I do not portray being,” he wrote, “I portray passing. Not the passing from one age to another … but from day to day,… — Sarah Bakewell Day to day Copy Share Image
“to see the world exactly as you did half an hour ago is impossible, just as it is impossible to see it… — Sarah Bakewell Different person Copy Share Image
“As the modern critic David Quint has summed it up, Montaigne would probably interpret the message for humanity in Christ’s crucifixion as… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
“He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster… — Sarah Bakewell Montaigne Copy Share Image
“He distinguishes between the German word Seiende, which can refer to any individual entity, such as a mouse or a church door,… — Sarah Bakewell Philosophy Copy Share Image
“Starting from where you are now, you choose. And in choosing, you also choose who you will be. If this sounds difficult… — Sarah Bakewell Bad advice Copy Share Image
“Instead, this cup of coffee is a rich aroma, at once earthy and perfumed; it is the lazy movement of a curlicue… — Sarah Bakewell Money Copy Share Image
“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is… — Sarah Bakewell Crime Copy Share Image
“The Childhood of a Leader’, written in 1938, Sartre examined a character, Lucien, who shores up an identity for himself as an… — Sarah Bakewell Children Copy Share Image
“Over the centuries, this interpretation and reinterpretation creates a long chain connecting a writer to all future readers- who frequently read each… — Sarah Bakewell Books Copy Share Image
“Be free from vanity and pride. Be free from belief, disbelief, convictions, and parties. Be free from habit. Be free from ambition… — Sarah Bakewell Death Copy Share Image
“If you fail to grasp life, it will elude you. If you do grasp it, it will elude you anyway.” — Sarah Bakewell Life Copy Share Image
“Montaigne’s half-century was so disastrous for France that it took another half-century to recover from it—and in some ways recovery never came,… — Sarah Bakewell Copy Share Image
“Reading Plutarch, he lost awareness of the gap in time that divided them—much bigger than the gap between Montaigne and us. It… — Sarah Bakewell Books Copy Share Image
“life does not pause to remind you that it is running out. The only one who can keep you mindful of this… — Sarah Bakewell Life Copy Share Image
“The trick is to maintain a kind of naïve amazement at each instant of experience - but, as Montaigne learned, one of… — Sarah Bakewell Art of living Copy Share Image
“Sartre turns love into a ‘battle between two hypnotists in a closed room’. Sartre” — Sarah Bakewell Love Copy Share Image
“Many authors also attacked the widespread corruption among lawyers. In general, justice was recognized as being so unjust that, as Montaigne complained,… — Sarah Bakewell Books Copy Share Image
“See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he… — Sarah Bakewell Every man Copy Share Image
“Again, he recommended the phenomenological method: disregard intellectual clutter, pay attention to things and let them reveal themselves to you.” — Sarah Bakewell Pay attention Copy Share Image
“Life is what happens while you’re making other plans, they said; so philosophy must guide your attention repeatedly back to the place… — Sarah Bakewell Life Copy Share Image
“In Germany, Martin Heidegger turned against his former mentor Edmund Husserl, but later Heidegger's friends and colleagues turned their backs on him.… — Sarah Bakewell Paul sartre Copy Share Image
