There is nothing more unsociable than man, and nothing more sociable: unsociable by his vice, sociable by his nature.
Michel de MontaigneCan anything be imagined so ridiculous, that this miserable and wretched creature [man], who is not so much as master of himself, but subject to the injuries of all things, should call himself master and emperor of the world, of which he has not power to know the least part, much less to command the whole?
Michel de MontaigneTag: perspective world mankind hubris mastery dominion
Better to be tentative than to be recklessly sure- to be an apprentice at sixty, than to present oneself as a doctor at ten.
Michel de MontaigneSo it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination... And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do not bring forth in the agitation.
Michel de MontaigneTag: idleness suspicion distrust idle-minds
Not being able to govern events, I govern myself
Michel de MontaigneTag: self-control self-government
He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de MontaigneTag: arguing being-right proving-a-point
Though the ancient poet in Plutarch tells us we must not trouble the gods with our affairs because they take no heed of our angers and disputes, we can never enough decry the disorderly sallies of our minds.
Michel de MontaigneTag: passion god soul madness mind human-nature
I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal concurrence and appetite to plunge and lose itself in mine.
Michel de MontaigneTag: friendship love will oneness
The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.
Michel de MontaigneTag: wisdom life beauty soul work occupation
It is a dangerous and fateful presumption, besides the absurd temerity that it implies, to disdain what we do not comprehend. For after you have established, according to your fine undertstanding, the limits of truth and falsehood, and it turns out that you must necessarily believe things even stranger than those you deny, you are obliged from then on to abandon these limits.
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