Montaigne: 135 books

« Tu mourras moins bête » est un blog de vulgarisation scientifique en bande dessinée. Son auteure, Marion Montaigne, y aborde la science sous un angle humoristique, mais toujours dans un souci d'exactitude scientifique et une certaine pédagogie. Le premier tome de la bande dessinée : « La...

For too long I accepted the herd’s definition of perfection. For too long I ate quickly, and the food wasn’t real. For too long I ignored the call out my window. I was trying to be just like everyone else, after all.

I saggi più belli di Montaigne tradotti in uno stile semplice e scorrevole al fine di rendere la lettura agevole a ogni tipo di lettore. Io non insegno, dice M., racconto. Il termine “essai” ha il significato di esperienza. Quelle che racconta sono le esperienze della storia antica, della Francia...

Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures...

From the 100-part Penguin Great Ideas series comes a rumination on relationships, courtesy of one of the most influential French Renaissance philosophers.   Michel de Montaigne was the originator of the modern essay form; in these diverse pieces he expresses his views on friendship, contemplates...

Otoro Queril is feared by his fellow Tracluse. As an executioner for Necrolius Anaxagorius' Imperium, it's Otoro's job to kill those poor souls brought to his chopping block, and to do it as efficiently and quickly as possible. No one in the Imperium does it better. Otoro Queril does not tire....

What came first, the shadow or the leaf it falls upon, the sunlight or the pain? Painted yellow, what calls, and what echoes, and what cries through the valley; And what strains the surface of things when joy surges and the depths reach up, and the wet sand dries and blows unseen to the dune ... And what settles over my head, misty and mysterious, indivisibly fine ...

How to push on? I don’t really know. Like her, the world wishes me gone. There is so much work yet. I pound the keys with one hand, the other thrust up, middle finger extended. She reproves me, but I know deep down she feels the same way. I can feel it. Momentum and energy.

Anurag de Bouchard is on a mission. He's waited half his lifetime for this moment. At last he can light the beacon that will spread the news across the whole of Aquanus: The Apprentice has come. All across the vast, dangerous waters of that ocean world, thousands of revolutionaries are...

A world falls to war. A young man watches helplessly as his sister is eaten by a giant demon right before his eyes. He narrowly escapes death himself; buoyed by the current of a corpse-filled canal, he bears horrified witness to the complete destruction of his country, Theseus. The invaders...

The airplane Professor Ray Wilms was in just exploded. Somehow he survived the fireball and tons of burning metal as it blew away into the night air over San Diego, California. He has no idea how he's still conscious. He's strapped to his seat and hurtling straight for the Pacific Ocean thousands...

When he was a mortal, Ray Wilms had no time or patience for children. Despite being an educator, he couldn't stand them. As an angel of death, his very first assignment back to Earth is to save a sixteen-year-old girl from her family and church. Her name is Deanna, and she's thinking...

I can see the world each morning with fresh eyes. I can write—even if no one is reading. I can speak out—even if no one is listening. I can laugh—even though I feel like crying. I can cry—even though the rest of the world plods numbly along. I can thrust both middle fingers defiantly at the...

Love and hate, loss and betrayal, inspiration and perspiration. God and nature. Poetry that isn't saturated or diluted or made safe for general consumption. Read and be enlightened, enraged, enraptured, or educed. What you won't be is neutral.