If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.Michel de Montaigne
A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.Michel de Montaigne
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.Michel de Montaigne
I understand that all the songs I write are quite melodramatic and are quite extreme from my perspective, but that's how life feels to everyone at some point.Michel de Montaigne
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.Arthur Schopenhauer
The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.Arthur Schopenhauer