This page features a selection of the best quotes by Michel de Montaigne. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes Montaigne in no particular order: It can be no easy task to rule others, when we find it so hard a matter to govern ourselves. … I am very much of opinion that it is far more easy and pleasant to follow than to lead; and that it is a great settlement and satisfaction of mind to have only …
The Best Quotes by Descartes (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by René Descartes. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Descartes in no particular order: It were far better never to think of investigating the truth at all, than to do so without a method. … Moreover by a method I mean certain and simple rules, such that, if a man observe them accurately, he shall never assume what is false as true, and will never spend his mental …
The Best Quotes by Blaise Pascal (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by Blaise Pascal. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Pascal in no particular order: Human life is thus only a perpetual illusion; men deceive and flatter each other. No one speaks of us in our presence as he does of us in our absence. Human society is founded on mutual deceit; few friendships would endure if each knew what his friend said of him in his absence, although …
The Best Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Rousseau in no particular order: Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. – The Social Contract, bk. 1, ch. 2 All ran headlong to their chains, in hopes of securing their liberty; for they had just wit enough to perceive the …
The Best Quotes by Bertrand Russell (Real Quotes with References)
This page features a selection of the best quotes by Bertrand Russell. All of these quotes are real and references are given after each quote. Here are the best quotes by Russell in no particular order: The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the cooperation or consent of his deliberate reason. – The Problems of Philosophy, ch. …