Nothing has changed; but our mind contemplates the matter in a different light and sees it from another aspect: for everything has many angles and many different sheens. Thoughts of kinship, old acquaintanceships, and affections suddenly seize our minds and stir them each according to their worth: but the change is so sudden that it escapes us:
Nil adeo fieri celeri ratione videtur
Quam si mens fieri proponit et inchoat ipsa
Ocius ergo animus quam res se perciet ulla
Ante oculos quarum in promptu natura videtur.[Nothing can be seen to match the rapidity of the thoughts which the mind produces and initiates. The mind is swifter than anything which the nature of our eyes allows them to see.]
~ Montaigne, The Complete Essays (1587-88)
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On how we weep and laugh at the same thing
Posted: February 23rd, 2009, 5:04pm MST by Husky
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