Quotations by Michel de Montaigne

Because it was he, because it was I.

• On Nature of love, their position: Philia (friendship)95%

Each man calls barbarism whatever is not his own practice.

• On Status of norms (metaethics), their position: Relativism70%

I am myself the matter of my book.

• On Interiority, their position: The examined life93%

I do not portray being: I portray passing.

• On Nature of the self, their position: Narrativism45%

It is faith alone that vividly and certainly embraces the high mysteries of our religion.

• On Faith and reason, their position: Fideism70%

Laws keep their credit not because they are just, but because they are laws.

• On Tradition and transformation, their position: Conservatism85%

Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live fitly.

• On The meaning of life, their position: Constructed meaning65%

We are never at home, we are always beyond ourselves.

• On Temporal orientation, their position: Living in the present80%

What do I know?

• On Relation to certainty, their position: Skepticism85%

Oh, what a soft and delightful pillow, and a healthy one, is ignorance and incuriosity, for resting a well-made head!

• On The value of truth, their position: Truth that empowers