"A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment."

Michel de Montaigne Philosophy See all quotes by Michel de Montaigne →

React to this quote

More by Michel de Montaigne

See all

“The day of your birth is one day’s advance towards the grave.”

“All the opinions of the world agree in this, that pleasure is our end.”

“Je veux que la mort me trouve plantant mes choux.”

“He who should teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.”

“C'est ce de quoi j'ai le plus de peur que la peur.”

“We are, I know not how, double in ourselves, which is the cause that what we believe we do not believe, and cannot disengage ourselves from what we condemn.”

Resonant Thoughts

"he individual in whom the will for the light is strong and clear finds his heart inextricably bound up with the struggle of the forces of light in his native place and time. Much as he may long for th…"

— Olaf Stapledon

Literature1886–1950

#love

"Not much is left of his ideas. What has come of the scientific idealism and the politicization of the masses, the class struggle and the, the and of course the transformation of the struggle against I…"

— Gideon Levy

Journalism1953

#leadership