“Montaigne raised questions rather than giving answers. He wrote about whatever caught his eye: war, psychology, animals, sex, magic, diplomacy, vanity, glory, violence, hermaphroditism, self-doubt. Most of all, he wrote about himself and was amazed at the variety he found within.”
Sarah Bakewell discusses what bloggers owe sixteenth-century essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
(via TheMillions)