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Like a duck
“I love rain and mud like a duck.” III.9 “Of vanity” (p.904)
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The most learned man alive
“At least I have one thing according to the rules: that no man ever treated a subject he knew and understood better than I do the subject I have undertaken; and that in this I am the most learned man alive. Secondly, that no man ever penetrated more deeply into his material, or plucked…
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Our minute distinctions
“… the world lets itself be so easily tricked, believing that our losses affect heaven, and that its infinity is impassioned about our minute distinctions.” II.13 “Of judging of the death of others” (p. 558)
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I exist only within myself
“As for me, I hold that I exist only in myself; and as for that other life of mine that lies in the knowledge of my friends, considering it naked and simply in itself, I know very well that I feel no fruit or enjoyment from it except by the vanity of a fanciful opinion.”…
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A book consubstantial with its author
I have no more made my book than my book has made me — a book consubstantial with its author […] For those who go over themselves only in their minds and occasionally in speech do not penetrate to essentials in their examination as does a man who makes his study, his work, and his…
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The custom of fathers
“I loathe the custom of forbidding children to use the name of father and enjoining upon them some strange address, as being more respectful; as if nature had not already provided sufficiently for our authority.” II.8 (p. 345)
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Seek not the world
“Seek no longer that the world should speak of you, but how you should speak to yourself.” I.39 “Of solitude” (p. 221)
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On being
“For being is something we hold dear, and being consists in movement and action. Wherefore each man in some sort exists in his work.” II.8 “Of the affection of fathers for their children” (p. 339)
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Some other tags
This is a post to hold some other tags that will be useful later.