Quotes · Quote card
Quotation from Essays by Michel de Montaigne
“When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me”
Essays, Book II, Ch. XII, 'Apology for Raymond Sebond', trans. Charles Cotton (1685-1686)
Part of the argument that human beings cannot see into animal minds and so have no basis for claiming superiority.
Citation: "When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me" — Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book II, Ch. XII, 'Apology for Raymond Sebond', trans. Charles Cotton (1685-1686). (id essays-montaigne-q7)
Portrait: Portrait of Michel de Montaigne by unknown painter in the Musée Condé, anonymous, Public domain.
