1 quotation linked to Essays of Montaigne — Book II by or associated with Michel de Montaigne, with source notes, explanations and related topics.
Experience, living, self-observation, learning, judgment and Montaigne’s practice of treating ordinary life as material for philosophy.
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“My trade and art is to live.”
Montaigne makes lived experience itself the central field of inquiry, treating ordinary life as material for reflection rather than a distraction from philosophy.
Source note: Essays of Montaigne, Book II, Charles Cotton translation; the sentence introduces his claim to speak from his own experience.