The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to... - Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

"Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

"Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know."

"I quote others only in order the better to express myself."

"We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there."