Rousseau Quotes

26 quotes by 24 authors

For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the inventions… — Gertrude Himmelfarb
As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same… — Benjamin Wiker
There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those… — Benjamin Wiker
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles. — Jacques Derrida
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much… — Marie Antoinette
Rousseau and his disciples were resolved to force men to be free; in most of the world, they triumphed; men are set free from family,… — Russell Kirk
Hitler is an outcome of Rousseau. — Bertrand Russell
One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the… — Walter Pater
As Rousseau could not compose without his cat beside him, so I cannot play chess without my king's bishop. In its absense the game to… — Siegbert Tarrasch
Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating electric… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and… — Richard Mitchell
Mock on, mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau! Mock on, mock on: 'Tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows… — William Blake
The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to… — Aleister Crowley
Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau. — Michel Houellebecq
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd… — Malcolm Muggeridge
The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the… — Jacob Burckhardt
To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling… — Alfred Sisley
Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted… — Terry Eagleton
Rousseau ranks among the great educational theorists of the modern era, even if he was the last man to put in charge of a classroom.… — Terry Eagleton

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