Psychology Quote by David Hume

“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

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

— Daniel Silva

“Rousseau alienated his aristocratic patrons; he quarrelled with most of his friends and well-wishers, including Hume and Diderot, many of whom also ended up…

— Pankaj Mishra

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

— Bertrand Russell

“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

“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

[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 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

“When I stay in one Place, I can hardly think at all; my body had to be on the move to set my mind…

— ROUSSEAU

Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.

— Camille Paglia

“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

“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