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“But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father.”

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Herbie Hancock, born on April 12, 1940, is a renowned jazz pianist, composer, and music producer. Known for his unique musical style and cross-genre artistic exploration, he is one of the most important figures in modern jazz. more

“What we are told of the inhabitants of Brazil, that they never die but of old age, is attributed to the tranquility and serenity of their climate; I rather attribute it to the tranquility and serenity of their souls, which are free from all passion, thought, or any absorbing and unpleasant labors. Those people spend their lives in an admirable simplicity and ignorance, without letters, without law, without king, without any manner of religion.”

People Soul Age Law Religion Dies Passion Ignorance Kings Labor Letters Climate Simplicity Old Age Attributes Serenity Tranquility Admirable Brazil Absorbing Relativism

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“Great authors, when they write about causes, adduce not only those they think are true but also those they do not believe in, provided they have some originality and beauty. They speak truly and usefully enough if they speak ingeniously.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Believe Enough Truth Speak Causes Beauty Originality Causality Great Author

Book:The Complete Essays of Montaigne

Source: The Complete Essays of Montaigne

“We have no participation in Being, because all human nature is ever midway between being born and dying, giving off only a vague image and shadow of itself, and a weak and uncertain opinion. And if you chance to fix your thoughts on trying to grasp its essence, it would be neither more nor less than if your tried to clutch water.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Trying Humans Would Be Water Born Chance Opinion Dying Human Nature Shadow Weak Essence Thoughtful Uncertain Vague Participation Clutch Midway

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“How often our involuntary facial motions testify to the thoughts we were keeping secret, and betray us to those around!”

Thinking Faces Secret Thoughtful Betray Facial Involuntary Keeping Secrets

Book:The Essays

Source: The Essays

“Have you been able to think out and manage your own life? You have done the greatest task of all.... All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”

Thinking Life Littles Done Able Building Tasks Manage Thoughtful Privacy Ruling Props Hoarding

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that our children will turn out well, or that our name will be famous in the future, or that we shall escape the evils of this life, or that vengeance threatens those who are the cause of our death.”

Thinking Wells Children Turns Evil Hope Names Causes Imagination Our Children This Life Thoughtful Elsewhere Our Thoughts Vengeance Better Life

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Fie on the eloquence that leaves us craving itself, not things!”

Wisdom Craving Eloquence Asceticism

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

“Lay a beam between these two towers of such width as we need to walk on: there is no philosophical wisdom of such great firmness that it can give us courage to walk on it as we should if it were on the ground.”

Ifs Needs Giving Should Two Wisdom Walks Philosophical Lays Towers Beam Apprehension Firmness Two Towers Width

Book:Complete Essays

Source: Complete Essays

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