lusions

Updated: June 3, 2025

Reason has purified itself from the il lusions of the senses and from a mendacious sophistry, and philosophy herself raises her voice and exhorts us to return to the bosom of nature, to which she had first made us unfaithful. Whence then is it that we remain still barbarians?

Michel de Montaigne - Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian