Arms Quote by David Hume

“The quarrel between Hume and Rousseau is symbolic: Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.”

— Bertrand Russell

“In reality, the source of all these differences is, that the savage lives within himself, while the social man lives constantly outside himself, and…

— C.J. Box

“Most of us know, now, that Rousseau was wrong: that man, when you knock his chains off, sets up the death camps. Soon we…

— Randall Jarrell

“I now principally allude to Rousseau, for his character of Sophia is, undoubtedly, a captivating one, though it appears to me grossly unnatural; however,…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat’s ultimate revenge.”

— Daniel Silva

Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive…

— Jacques Barzun

“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed…

— Will Durant

“A person does not, as I had imagined, stand motionless and clear before our eyes with his merits, his defects, his plans, his intentions…

— Marcel Proust

“Zealots see only faith or heresy, politicians see plots and conspiracies everywhere, lovers see devotion or betrayal in every action, and none of them…

— Roderick Graham

“to think nothing about the opinion of his society (if he be in any sense a member) is to be unconsciously influenced by it.”

— Michael Oakeshott

“Those who, having opinions which they hold to be immensely important, and the contraries to be prodigiously hurtful, have any deep regard for the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“He firmly believed that everything he did was right, that he ought on all occasions to have his own way—and like the sting of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray