Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
-- Michel de Montaigne

#Memory #MicheldeMontaigne #Quotes #Panorama #Bot

https://pca.st/episode/0af130ab-b9b1-460d-89bd-24988074c9a6?t=1650

Sarah Bakewell speaking of Michel de Montaigne.

#SarahBakewell #MichelDeMontaigne

Il se trouve autant de différence de nous à nous-mêmes que de nous à autrui.

#MichelDeMontaigne / Essais (1572)

#Quotes #AWAD #AnuGarg #MicheldeMontaigne

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The souls of emperors and cobblers are cast in the same mold. The same reason that makes us wrangle with a neighbor creates a war between princes. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (28 Feb 1533-1592)

L'impression de certitude est un témoignage certain de folie et d'incertitude extrême. C'est mettre ses conjectures à bien haut prix que d'en faire cuire un homme tout vif.

#MichelDeMontaigne / Essais (1590)

“Don’t read him, as children do, for amusement. Nor, as the ambitious do, to be instructed. No, read him in order to live.” ~ Gustave Flaubert

#MichelDeMontaigne #GustaveFlaubert

“Don’t read him, as children do, for amusement. Nor, as the ambitious do, to be instructed. No, read him in order to live.” ~ Gustav Flaubert

#MichelDeMontaigne #GustaveFlaubert

“Don’t read him, as children do, for amusement. Nor, as the ambitious do, to be instructed. No, read him in order to live.” ~ Gustav Flaubert

#MichelDeMontaigne #GustaveFlaubert

https://pca.st/episode/538fd818-a116-458e-b1ce-14e70ecba9ac

Finally, the philosophy podcast 'History of Philosophy Without any Gaps' reaches Michel de Montaigne, one of my favourites.

Don't miss out on Sarah Bakewell's brilliant book about Montaigne.

#MichelDeMontaigne #SarahBakewell #philosophy

Parce Que C’était Lui - PEN America https://pen.org/parce-que-cetait-lui/

'No reader of Montaigne can forget that stunning moment when, after probing why he loved his deceased friend Etienne de La Boétie so much, the author of the essays, this master-stylist of baroque prose, breaks down and scrawls out one of the most beautiful sentences penned in French: “You ask me why I loved him,” Montaigne says. “I don’t know. All I can say is parce que c’était lui, parce que c’était moi.” Because it was he, because it was I.'

#MichelDeMontaigne

I think I've already discovered what'll be the book of 2023.

Sarah Bakewell's 'Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope'. It'll be published late March (2023).

Sarah is my favourite living author. Her books on Michel de Montaigne and existentialism are some of my most highly treasured books. They've made me grow as a person.

Read more about the new book here: https://sarahbakewell.com/books-3/humanly-possible-700-years-of-humanist-freethinking-inquiry-and-hope/

#SarahBakewell #humanism #philosophy #book #reading #MichelDeMontaigne #existentialism #ChristineDePizan #BertrandRussell #ZolaNealeHurston #Voltaire

He who fears he shall #suffer, already suffers what he fears
#MichelDeMontaigne

I just finished reading the first volume of the #Essays by #MichelDeMontaigne, arguably the most important non-fiction work in all of world #literature.

Here are all my highlights (in 🇪🇸 #Spanish):

https://tripu.medium.com/montaigne-121ed878b0b7

#book #TheGreatestBooks #Montaigne #TheEssays

Nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know
#MichelDeMontaigne