Apology for Raymond Sebond Quotes

“Can 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 Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond

“Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond

“Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond

“Now from the knowledge of this mobility of mine I have accidentally engendered in myself a certain constancy of opinions, and have scarcely altered my original and natural ones. For whatever allure there may be in novelty, I do not change easily, for fear that I will lose in the change. And since I am not capable of choosing, I accept other people's choice and stay in the position where God put me. Otherwise I would not know how to keep myself from rolling about without end. Thus I have, by the grace of God, conserved myself intact, without agitation or disturbance of conscience, in the ancient beliefs or our religion, in the midst of the many sects and divisions that our century has produced.”
― Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond

“La presunción es nuestra enfermedad natural y primera. La más frágil y discutible de las criaturas es el hombre, y a la vez la más orgullosa”
― Michel de Montaigne, Apology for Raymond Sebond