Quote by Ernst Cassirer Download Open image ““Rousseau created a new responsibility for evil; neither God nor man but human society.”” — Ernst Cassirer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Wasting the valuable time of others, thought Rousseau, was a bureaucrat’s ultimate revenge.” — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“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 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
Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Without man there would be no evil. But there was also no good, nothing moral built over the world of fact. Humans were responsible… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
For Rousseau and Mandeville the absence of a moral instinct meant the laws of society had no moral validity, they were nothing but the… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side with or… — M. Guizot Copy Share Image
“The quarrel between Hume and Rousseau is symbolic: Rousseau was mad but influential; Hume was sane but had no followers.” — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“... the Existence of Deity, that he made the World, and govern'd it by his Providence; that the most acceptable Service of God was… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil. —” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with regard to… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“The facts of science always imply a theoretical, which means a symbolic, element.” — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the name gives him who knows it mastery even over the being and will of the god. — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“There is no remedy against this reversal of the natural order. Man cannot escape from his own achievement. He cannot but adopt the conditions… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Religion claims to be in possession of an absolute truth; but its history is a history of errors and heresies. It gives us the… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“The form of observation , which underlines all speech and language development, always expresses a peculiar spiritual character , a special way of conceiving… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Man is always inclined to regard the small circle in which he lives as the center of the world and to make his particular,… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and sound interpretation… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
To learn a new language is, therefore, always a sort of spiritual adventure; it is like a journey of discovery in which we find… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the same for… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
“Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene. The moment man ceases… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
