"I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself."
-Michel de Montaigne
WorkView Quote
"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.“
-Michel de Montaigne
posted in Love
Other Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
Discover more inspiring quotes by Michel de Montaigne
"The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness."
-Michel de Montaigne
WisdomView Quote
"We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom."
-Michel de Montaigne
WisdomView Quote
"I put forward formless and unresolved notions, as do those who publish doubtful questions to debate in the schools, not to establish the truth but to seek it."
-Michel de Montaigne
TruthView Quote
"I speak the truth not so much as I would, but as much as I dare, and I dare a little more as I grow older."
-Michel de Montaigne
TruthView Quote
"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."
-Michel de Montaigne
StrengthView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."
-Hans Urs von Balthasar
LoveView Quote
"At the end of the day, you know, love does not happen between two perfect people as much as we would wish."
-Hillary Clinton
LoveView Quote
"Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory."
-Milan Kundera
LoveView Quote
"I did not just fall in love. I made a parachute jump."
-Zora Neale Hurston
LoveView Quote
"A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair."
-Abraham Joshua Heschel
LoveView Quote
"The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death."
-E. M. Forster
LoveView Quote