Quotes from Montaigne

From these articles of my confession you can imagine others to my discredit. But whatever I make myself out to be, provided that I show myself as I am, I am fulfilling my purpose.

Platon, Devlet'inde ak?lca ve ruhça zay?f olanlara tart??may? yasak etmiÅŸtir. DoÄŸru dürüst ad?m at?p yürümesini bilmeyen bir insanla gerçeÄŸi aramaya ç?kman?n anlam? var m??

Onun için kalabal?ktan kaçmak yetmez, bir yerden baÅŸka bir yere gitmekle iÅŸ bitmez. Ä°çimizdeki kalabal?ktan kurtulmam?z, kendimizi kendimizden koparmam?z gerek, böyle anlarda.

La persecución y la caza corren propiamente de nuestra cuenta; no tenemos excusa si las efectuamos mal y fuera de propósito. Fallar en la captura es otra cosa. Porque hemos nacido para buscar la verdad; poseerla corresponde a una potencia mayor. [...] El mundo es sólo una escuela de indagación. Lo importante no es quien llegará a la meta, sino quién efectuará las más bellas carreras.

Tabiatta ÅŸöyle bir kar??ma da görülür: Ressamlardan öÄŸreniyoruz ki aÄŸlarken ve gülerken yüzümüzde beliren çizgiler ve hareketler ayn?ym??. Gerçekten, resim henüz bitmeden bakacak olursan?z çehre aÄŸlayacak m?, gülecek mi bilemezsiniz. Daha garibi var: Gülme son haddine var?nca gözyaÅŸlar?yla kar???r.

All beings share a common world, but each creature has its own way of perceiving this world.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.-Montaigne

To enter a breach, conduct an embassy, govern a people, are actions of renown; to reprehend, laugh, sell, pay, love, hate, and gently and justly converse with a man's own family and with himself; not to relax, not to give a man's self the lie, is more rare and hard, and less remarkable.

I started writing - just generally - when I was 10, there, and started writing songs when I was maybe 11 turning 12.

I believe in reinventing oneself if one has messed up and is repentant and actually makes an effort to change for the better, I'm all about that.

All of us feel, I think, that our experiences can be the worst possible thing you can go through and that we're alone in it, which is isolating and intense and insurmountable. But we can get over it.

My biggest strength in life is that I'm good at learning and I'm really good at admitting when I'm wrong and recalibrating my perspective.

I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.

My true memory has been tainted by old home videos of my sister and I, ages 3 and 5 respectively, singing karaoke to Britney Spears' 'Lucky' in our living room, and tape recordings of my parents trying to elicit songs out of our throats at a similar or younger age.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss.

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

I speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more as I grow older.

My art and profession is to live.