Michel de Montaigne Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Sleep, Simplicity

• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Teaching, Learning

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

• Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Political, Religion, Atheism

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.35, Courier Corporation

• Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Foolish Man, Religion

• To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  God, Honor, Religion

  Michel de Montaigne (1964). “Selected essays of Montaigne: in the translation of John Florio”

• What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Kings, Ignorance, Passion

  Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

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