Montaigne Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique… — Lewis Thomas
According to Montaigne, it was the oppressive notion that we had complete mental control over our bodies, and the horror of departing from this portrait… — Alain de Botton
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted;… — Blaise Pascal
Quotations are powerful tools. Michel de Montaigne, the father of all essayists, observed, 'I quote others only to better express myself.' Intrepid quotations detective Ralph… — Richard Lederer
I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of… — Robert Sheckley
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the… — E. M. Forster
This book of Montaigne the world has endorsed by translating it into all tongues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet… — Barbara Taylor Bradford
I thought of the words of the Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say… — Josh Lanyon
Religion is not a matter of God, church, holy cause, etc. These are but accessories. The source of religious preoccupation is in the self, or… — Eric Hoffer

Who Wrote These Montaigne Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 11 Montaigne Quotes as follows: