How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

The Mosaic Principle: A book review by Bob Morris

July 1, 2022

The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career Nick Lovegrove PublicAffairs (November 2016) “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman Note: The insights in some (not…

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The Mosaic Principle: A book review by Bob Morris

November 17, 2016

The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career Nick Lovegrove PublicAffairs (November 2016) “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman I was reminded of Whitman’s…

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The Wit and Wisdom of Michel de Montaigne

August 10, 2016

I think it was during my first year in high school that I began to read Montaigne’s essays and eventually I read all 137 of them…and continue to re-read several dozen personal favorites. In How to Live: Or A Life of…

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Andrew Sullivan on Montaigne: “The Great Blogger”

December 20, 2010

Here is one of my favorite Andrew Sullivan blog posts in which he discusses Sarah Bakewell’s brilliant book, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, about Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, author…

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