... be a frail centenarian. His health and strength would render difficult the simplest tasks of daily life. He would have claimed that his generation would be unreliable for solving the great challenges of a new generation. In fact, Ward would concur with Michel Montaigne, the sixteenth-century French writer, "(O)ur death is part of the order of the universe"… (we of previous generations need to )… "Give place to others, as others have given place to… (us)."[5] When the new comes, the old passes. On ...
... A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.6 Kafka was not writing about the Bible, but this certainly is a powerful description of how the Word of God operates on us when we know it. Quote: Michel de Montaigne. A highly influential Renaissance essayist, Montaigne (1533–92) wrote, “To hunt after truth is properly our business, and we are inexcusable if we carry on the chase impertinently and ill; to fail of catching it is another thing, for we are born to inquire after truth: it belongs ...
3. Don't Let It Grow
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From the French Enlightenment essayist, Michel de Montaigne, based on a proverb traced to the fourth century church father Jerome: Lying is indeed an accursed vice. We are men, and we have relations with one another only by speech. If we recognized the horror and gravity of an untruth, we should more justifiably punish it with fire than ...
A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.
