Thales of Miletus
In the Essays of Michel de Montaigne
There are 19 instances of Thales of Miletus in seven chapters.
Normalized frequency of Thales of Miletus in the Essays
- Book 1 · Chapter 19 · ¶ 98.
To Philosophize Is to Learn to Die I taught Thales, foremost among the wise, that living and dying was a matter of …
- Book 1 · Chapter 24 · ¶ 9.
On Pedantry insomuch, that Empedocles refused the royalty that the Agrigentines offered to him. Thales, once inveighing in discourse against the pains and care men put themselves …
- Book 1 · Chapter 38 · ¶ 33.
On Solitude active and flourishing age in the world’s service; after the example of Thales. …
- Book 1 · Chapter 40 · ¶ 47.
The Taste of Good and Bad Things Depends Mostly on the Opinion We Have of Them And when they asked Thales why he was not married, he said he did not care to …
- Book 2 · Chapter 8 · ¶ 15.
On the Affection of Fathers for Their Children Thales gave the truest limits, who, young and being importuned by his mother …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 64.
Apology for Raymond Sebond some have boasted that they understood them, as Apollonius Tyanaus, Melampus, Tiresias, Thales, and others. And seeing, as cosmographers report, that there are nations that …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 140.
Apology for Raymond Sebond cunning, can there be a more pregnant example than in the philosopher Thales’s mule? who, fording a river, laden with salt, and by accident stumbling …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 275.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Pherecydes, one of the seven sages, writing to Thales upon his death-bed; “I have,” said he, “given order to my people, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 330.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Thales, who first inquired into this sort of matter, believed God to be …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 394.
Apology for Raymond Sebond that bears the name of a Christian shall ever do again)! and Thales, Plato, and Pythagoras have enslaved him to necessity. This arrogance of attempting …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 446.
Apology for Raymond Sebond am very well pleased with the Milesian girl, who observing the philosopher Thales to be always contemplating the celestial arch, and to have his eyes …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 448.
Apology for Raymond Sebond says, in Plato, “That whoever meddles with philosophy may be reproached as Thales was by the woman, that he sees nothing of that which is …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 452.
Apology for Raymond Sebond the plenum or vacuum of Leucippus and Democritus, or the water of Thales, or the infinity of nature of Anaximander, or the air of Diogenes, …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 458.
Apology for Raymond Sebond philosophy makes the celestial and first bodies participants; nor of that which Thales attributed to things which themselves are reputed inanimate, lead thereto by the …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 460.
Apology for Raymond Sebond a natural motion; Plato, that it was a substance moving of itself; Thales, a nature without repose; Aedepiades, an exercising of the senses; Hesiod and …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 520.
Apology for Raymond Sebond Syrius, in the time of King Tullus (though some attribute it to Thales, and others to others), ’tis the part of human science that is …
- Book 2 · Chapter 12 · ¶ 541.
Apology for Raymond Sebond When Thales reputes the knowledge of man very difficult for man to comprehend, he …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 34.
On Some Verses of Virgil a man be not a liar to boot. If he who asked Thales the Milesian whether he ought solemnly to deny that he had committed …
- Book 3 · Chapter 5 · ¶ 34.
On Some Verses of Virgil for I look upon lying as a worse fault than the other. Thales advised him quite contrary, bidding him swear to shield the greater fault …