“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 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
“[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
“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
“Yes, I can understand that a man might go to gambling table - when he sees that all that lies between himself… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“Start with that. Chaos. No control, no law, no government at all. Like being in the arena. Where do we go from… — Suzanne Collins 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
“The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of… — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
“And we have seen how Rousseau’s insistence on creating a world that makes sense ultimately vitiates his attempt to educate a child… — Susan Neiman 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
“Petulance is not wit, although a few grains of wit may be found in petulance; quartz is not gold, although a few… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
