Philosophy Quote by Michael de Montaigne — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“To philosophise is to learn how to die.”

“Excuses are a promise of repetition.”

“Violence begins with the fork.”

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it. Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit, cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed.”

“Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.”

“In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...”

“striid andWthdraw into yourself. Our master-reason asks no more than to act justly, and thereby to achieve calm.”