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Matter Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
- I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants are swamped by…
- I am myself the matter of my book.
- Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.
- Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy
- I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I portray... I am…
- It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and…
- A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.
- 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…
- 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…
More Matter Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- I always think that if you look at anyone in detail, you will have empathy for them because you recognize them as… — Andrea Arnold
- I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization. Those documents… — Julian Assange
- The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters. — Mary Astell
- I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person… — Richard Attenborough
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- Hardware works best when it matters the least. — Norman Ralph Augustine