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And certainly a wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
[Certes l’homme d’entendement n’a rien perdu, s’il a soy-mesme.]Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 38 (1.38)), “Of Solitude [De la solitude]” (1572) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom; every one, having an inward veneration for the opinions and manners approved and received among his own people, cannot, without very great reluctance, depart from them, nor apply himself to them without applause.
[Les loix de la conscience, que nous disons naistre de nature, naissent de la coustume : chacun ayant en veneration interne les opinions & mœurs approuvees & receues autour de luy, ne s’en peut desprendre sans remors, ny s’y appliquer sans applaudissement.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 22 (1.22), “Of Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law [De la Coustume et de Ne Changer Aisément une Loy Receüe]” (1572) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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We are not going; we are carried away,
like things that float...Montaigne, Essays II 1
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For this reason, mixing with men is wonderfully useful, and visiting foreign countries […] to bring back knowledge of the characters and ways of those nations, and to rub and polish our brains by contact with those of others.
[A cette cause le commerce des hommes y est merveilleusement propre, & la visite des pays estrangers […] pour en rapporter principalement les humeurs de ces nations & leurs façons : & pour frotter & limer nostre cervelle contre celle d’autruy.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 25 (1.25), “Of the Education of Children [De l’institution des enfans]” (1579) [tr. Frame (1943), ch. 26]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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The first sign of corrupt morals is the banishing of truth.
[Le premier traict de la corruption des mœurs, c’est le bannissement de la verité]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Screech (1987)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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Life’s usefulness is not in its length, but in its use: some who have lived a long time have lived but little — take heed of it while you are still in it. For you to have lived enough lies in your will, not in the number of your years.
[L’utilité du vivre n’est pas en l’espace: elle est en l’usage. Tel a vescu long temps, qui a peu vescu. Attendez vous y pendant que vous y estes. Il gist en vostre volonté, non au nombre des ans, que vous ayez assez vescu.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19), “That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die [Que Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourir]” (1572-03) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
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#Akzeptanz von #Normen
Der #mystische #Grund der #Autorität des #Gesetzes.
Demgegenüber ist die #Einführung der #Ausnahme die #Bedingung der #Möglichkeit einer #Ausnahme für jede #Form von #Perspektivität, die #Kontingenz #eröffnet;
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#Unterscheidung von #Stringenz und #Kontingenz
#Interview mit Christoph #Möllers, #Verfassungsrecht und #Rechtsphilosophie #Humboldt #Universität
#SZ 31.12.2020, #Politik, Was die #Freiheit aushöhlt. S. 6