Jacques rousseau Quote by C.J. Box

“The first articulate explorer and to an extent even theorist of intimacy was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who, characteristically enough, is the only great author still…

— Hannah Arendt

“Social man lives always outside himself; he knows how to live only in the opinion of others, it is, so to speak, from their…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Man requires a healing education which returns him to himself. Rousseau's paradoxes- his attack on the arts and the sciences and his practice of…

— Allan Bloom

“Contra Hobbes and Locke, Rousseau refused to believe that the obligations to civil society could be derived from self-interest, the preservation of life or…

— Pankaj Mishra

“A man has as many social selves as there are distinct groups of persons about whose opinion he cares. He generally shows a different…

— William James

[Rousseau] has not had the precaution to throw any veil over his sentiments; and as he scorns to dissemble his contempt of established opinions,…

— David Hume

“The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between…

— Niall Ferguson

“[Rousseau is] the person whom I most revere both for the Force of [his] Genius and the Greatness of [his] mind [...]”

— David Hume

“What’s crucial about Rousseau, and many of his ideological successors, is that politics was always personal for him, unlike those whom Tocqueville faulted for…

— Pankaj Mishra

“And again, just in case we have missed Hegel’s point: “A single person, I need hardly say, is something subordinate, and as such he…

— Stephen R.C. Hicks

“ The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order, constantly the…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau