{"title":"Montaigne — Contradicts Me","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"attention-not-anger-montaigne-organic-tee","title":"Attention, Not Anger — Montaigne Quote Organic T-Shirt","description":"\u003cp\u003eSomeone in the comments says you've got it wrong. Your thumb is already typing. Then you read it again, slower.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"When any one contradicts me, he raises my attention, not my anger.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Michel de Montaigne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssais, Book III, Ch. VIII, \"Of the Art of Conference,\" 1588. Translated by Charles Cotton, 1685–86. We check every line against a primary source.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe keeps going: \"I advance towards him who controverts, who instructs me; the cause of truth ought to be the common cause both of the one and the other.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe crack through \"anger\" borrows from kintsugi, where a break is mended into something worth keeping. 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The table goes quiet. You put your fork down and ask how he got there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“When any one contradicts me, he raises my attention, not my anger.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e— Michel de Montaigne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssais, Book III, Ch. VIII, “Of the Art of Conference,” 1588. Translated by Charles Cotton, 1685–86. We check every line against a primary source.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLater in the same essay he writes: “We evade correction, whereas we ought to offer and present ourselves to it.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA crack runs through “anger,” mended the way kintsugi mends a broken bowl. 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