Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
Blaise PascalTags: epictetus montaigne michel-de-montaigne salomon-de-tultie
A comparably capacious embrace of beauty and pleasure - an embrace that somehow extends to death as well as life, to dissolution as well as creation - characterizes Montaigne's restless reflections on matter in motion, Cervantes's chronicle of his mad knight, Michelangelo's depiction of flayed skin, Leonardo's sketches of whirlpools, Caravaggio's loving attention to the dirty soles of Christ's feet.
Stephen GreenblattTags: art cervantes renaissance montaigne swerve
As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous, and that those behind it have exceptional powers of resistance. [On witchburning in France during the 16th Century.]
Sarah BakewellTags: society law crime montaigne
Bundan sonraki halim ancak yarım bir varlık olacak; ben artık o ben olmayacağım. Gün geçtikçe kendimden ayrılıyor, uzaklaşıyorum.
Michel de MontaigneTags: montaigne
Biz pek şaşkın varlıklarız: Filanca hayatını işsiz güçsüz geçirdi, deriz; bugün hiçbir şey yapmadım, deriz. -Bir şey yapmadım da ne demek? Yaşadınız ya!
Michel de MontaigneTags: montaigne
Kanunlar doğru oldukları için değil, kanun oldukları için yürürlükte kalırlar. Kendilerini dinletmeleri akıldışı bir güçten gelir, başka bir şeyden değil. (..) Kanunlardan daha çok, daha ağır, daha geniş haksızlıklara yol açan ne vardır?
Michel de MontaigneTags: montaigne
Kendimizden kaçmamız, kendimizde olup biteni bilmememizdendir.
Michel de MontaigneTags: montaigne
Mon métier et mon art c’est vivre. [My craft and my skill is living.]
Michel de MontaigneTags: art writing essays montaigne
Had I been placed among those nations which are said to live still in the sweet freedom of nature's first laws, I assure you I should very gladly have portrayed myself here entire and wholly naked.
Thus, reader, I am myself the matter of my book; you would be unreasonable to spend your leisure on so frivolous and vain a subject.
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