Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Men ... are not agreed about any one thing, not even that heaven is over our heads.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Agreement, Heaven

  Michel de Montaigne (1877). “Essays”, p.314

• The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fate, Law, Heaven

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 12, 1595.

• Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy; research, the progress; ignorance, the end. There is, by heavens, a strong and generous kind of ignorance that yields nothing, for honour and courage, to knowledge: an ignorance to conceive which needs no less knowledge than to conceive knowledge.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Strong, Philosophy, Philosophical

• There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Heaven, Degrees, Wit

• Socrates ... brought human wisdom back down from heaven, where she was wasting her time, and restored her to man.... It is impossible to go back further and lower. He did a great favor to human nature by showing how much it can do by itself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Heaven, Favors

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