Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Reflection

Quotes about: Reflection

• If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Reflection, Different, Looks

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.242, Stanford University Press

• And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?

  Michel de Montaigne

  Book, Reading, Reflection

• We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one. There is, indeed, a certain low and moderate sort of poetry, that a man may well enough judge by certain rules of art; but the true, supreme, and divine poesy is equally above all rules and reason. And whoever discerns the beauty of it with the most assured and most steady sight sees no more than the quick reflection of a flash of lightning.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Art, Writing, Reflection

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.126

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