Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Miracles

Quotes about: Miracles

• I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Miracle, Monsters, World

  Michel de Montaigne, George Savile Marquis of Halifax (1743). “Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. And an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator”, p.295

• The finest lives in my opinion are the common model, without miracle and without extravagance.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Miracle, Extravagance

• I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Truth, Miracle, Monsters

• Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Ignorance, Miracle, Agnostic

  Michel de Montaigne (1956). “Autobiography: Comprising the Life of the Wisest Man of His Times ...”

• The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Light, Miracle, Ordinary

• It is probable that the principal credit of miracles, visions, enchantments, and such extraordinary occurrences comes from the power of imagination, acting principally upon the minds of the common people, which are softer.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Imagination, People, Miracle

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.70, Stanford University Press

• The most beautiful lives, to my mind, are those that conform to the common human pattern, with order, but without miracle and without eccentricity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Order, Miracle

  Michel de Montaigne (1973). “Selections from the Essays”, Harlan Davidson

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