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What am I to choose? “Choose what you please, as long as you choose.” There you have a foolish answer, which seems to be the outcome, however, of all Dogmatism, which will not allow us to be ignorant of that which we are ignorant.

Author: Montaigne, Michel de

Categories: dogmatism; ignorance

Attribution: Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), French essayist. “Apology for Raimund Sebond,” p. 500, The Essays of Montaigne, vol. I, trans. by E.J. Trechmann, Oxford University Press, New York and London (n.d.).

Futility of dogmatic philosophy.



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