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All general judgments are loose and imperfect

All general judgments are loose and imperfect

Michel de Montaigne
Judgement, Imperfect, Judgment

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

Michel de Montaigne
Judgement, Can Do
Michel de Montaigne (1991). “The essays of Michel de Montaigne”, Lane, Allen

There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

Michel de Montaigne
Judgement, Way, Judgment
Michel de Montaigne (1946). “The essays”

Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.

Michel de Montaigne
Friendship, Hatred, Judgement
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.823, Stanford University Press

It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

Michel de Montaigne
Memories, Judgement, Excellent
"The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne".

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

Michel de Montaigne
Father, Judgement, News
Michel de Montaigne (1965). “Complete Essays”, p.100, Stanford University Press

The good, supreme, divine poetry is above the rules and reason. Whoever discerns its beauty with a firm, sedate gaze does not see it, any more than he sees the splendor of a lightning flash. It does not persuade our judgement, it ravishes and overwhelms it.

Michel de Montaigne
Judgement, Lightning, Doe
Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.171, Stanford University Press

A volunteer, you assign yourself specific roles and risks according to your judgement of their brilliance and importance, and you see when life itself may be justifiably devoted to them.

Michel de Montaigne
Volunteer, Judgement, Risk
Michel de Montaigne (1976). “The Complete Essays of Montaigne”

To make judgements about great and lofty things, a soul of the same stature is needed; otherwise we ascribe to them that vice which is our own.

Michel de Montaigne
Judgement, Soul, Vices
'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 14 [References are to M. Rat's edition of the 'Essais' (1958) which, in accordance with the Strowski and Gebelin text (1906-33), conflates the 1580 edition of books 1 and 2, the revised and enlarged 1588 edition of all three books, and later manuscript additions published posthumously]

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