“Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure.” — Robert Zaretsky Copy Share Image
The only dance masters I could have were Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Walt Whitman and Nietzsche. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“Why did you paint a couch in the middle of the jungle?" Rousseau: "Because one has a right to paint one's dreams.” — Henri Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of [woman]. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU” — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“Break the chains of your body and you will break the chains of your mind." Rousseau” — Dianne Whelan Copy Share Image
“[Rousseau is] the person whom I most revere both for the Force of [his] Genius and the Greatness of [his] mind [...]” — David Hume Copy Share Image
The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We remain in the Romantic cycle initiated by Rousseau: liberal idealism canceled by violence, barbarism, disillusionment and cynicism. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“What’s crucial about Rousseau, and many of his ideological successors, is that politics was always personal for him, unlike those whom Tocqueville… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the… — Benjamin Wiker Copy Share Image
[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps.… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“The inquiry begins with Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Look at the great tradition of Western political philosophy. Those people were all immersed in revolutionary movements. Most weren't career academics -… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“If I had had to choose my place of birth, I would have chosen a state in which everyone knew everyone else,… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
“In reality, the source of all these differences is, that the savage lives within himself, while the social man lives constantly outside… — C.J. Box Copy Share Image
Matthey, a Geneva physician very close to Rousseau's influence, formulates the prospect for all men of reason: 'Do not glory in your… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The… — Jacob Burckhardt Copy Share Image
The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“I have received your new book against the human race, and thank you for it. Never was such a cleverness used in… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free society by reference… — Bertrand De Jouvenel Copy Share Image
“With the growth of civilisation in Europe, and with the revival of letters and of science in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries,… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“I now principally allude to Rousseau, for his character of Sophia is, undoubtedly, a captivating one, though it appears to me grossly… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“The recent explosions, from India to the United States, of ressentiment against writers and journalists as well as politicians, technocrats, businessmen and… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The first impression of the writings of Mr. J. J. Rousseau received by a knowledgeable reader, who is reading for something more… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“However great a man's natural talent may be, the art of writing cannot be learned all at once. Jean-Jaeques Rousseau” — Jean-Jaeques Rousseau Copy Share Image
This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat’s ultimate revenge.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
![“The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of [woman]. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU” quote by Sarah Ban Breathnach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/829/sarah-ban-breathnach-833_happiness_the-thirst-after-happiness-is-never-exti_69822.jpg)
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![“[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions, he could not wonder that all the zealots were in arms against him.” quote by David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b94/david-hume-538_arms_rousseau-has-not-had-the-precaution-to-t_2118649.jpg)
![“Since [Rousseau's] time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, and, for purposes of model, to become a manikin on which the toilet of education is to be draped in order to show the fit or misfit of the clothes. The object of study is the garment, not the figure.” quote by Henry Adams](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/242/henry-adams-1542_autobiography_since-rousseau-s-time-and-largely-thanks_1407086.jpg)
