Pierre Charron Quotes on Knowledge
Pierre Charron was a French Catholic priest, preacher, and philosopher and the principal successor of Montaigne in the late Renaissance tradition of Christian skepticism. This page collects quotes attributed to Pierre Charron on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Pierre Charron:
“Self-knowledge is the foundation of all wisdom.”
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Attributed to Pierre Charron:
“The wise person preserves the freedom of judgment in all things.”
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Attributed to Pierre Charron:
“Doubt rightly held is the sister of certainty.”
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“La vraie science et le vrai étude de l'homme c'est l'homme.”
The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself. | Book I, Ch. 1. Stanhope 's translation, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) p. 488. Different translation in H. L. Mencken (ed.) A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles ( 1960) p. 739: "The true science and study of man is man. -
“The proper Science and Subject for Man's Contemplation is Man himself.”
La vraie science et le vrai étude de l'homme c'est l'homme. -
“Book I, Ch. 1. Stanhope 's translation, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) p. 488. Different translation in H. L. Mencken (ed.) A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles ( 1960) p. 739: "The true science and study of man is man.”
La vraie science et le vrai étude de l'homme c'est l'homme. -
“Book II, Ch. 5, p. 345. Reported in Michael Hunter and David Wootton (eds.) Atheism from the Reformation to the Enlightenment (1992) p. 99”
All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence laughs at them; but others are so noble, illustrious, miraculous, and mysterious that the intellect can make no sense of them and finds them unpalatable. -
“Those who have nothing else to recommend them to the respect of others but only their blood, cry it up at a great rate, and have their mouths perpetually full of it. They swell and vapor, and you are sure to hear of their families and relations every third word.”
p. 22 ( Ancestry ) -
“The certain way to be cheated is to fancy one's self more cunning than others.”
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“Despair is like forward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness. It grows angry with itself, turns its own executioner, and revenges its misfortunes on its own head.”
p. 123 ( Despair )