Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.


Signs, trans. R. McCleary (Evanston: 1964), p. 203


Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.