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Quotation from Essays by Michel de Montaigne
“This fancy will be more certainly understood by interrogation: “What do I know?” as I bear it with the emblem of a balance”
Essays, Book II, Ch. XII, 'Apology for Raymond Sebond', trans. Charles Cotton (1685-1686)
Montaigne adopts the Pyrrhonist question as a personal motto, explaining it just after likening sceptical doubt to rhubarb that purges itself along with the bad humours.
Citation: "This fancy will be more certainly understood by interrogation: “What do I know?” as I bear it with the emblem of a balance" — Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Book II, Ch. XII, 'Apology for Raymond Sebond', trans. Charles Cotton (1685-1686). (id essays-montaigne-q8)
Portrait: Portrait of Michel de Montaigne by unknown painter in the Musée Condé, anonymous, Public domain.
