Dance Quote by Isadora Duncan

The theory of social contracts extends as far back as Plato. However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes,…

— Simon Mainwaring

The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“ 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

“The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of [woman]. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“The inquiry begins with Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–78), who was the first of the modern intellectuals, their archetype and in many ways the most influential…

— Paul Johnson

“Nothing is harder than distinguishing in children between real stupidity and that apparent but misleading stupidity which simply indicates strength of character. Jean-Jacques Rousseau,…

— Peter Gumbel

Active people don't change the world profoundly; ideas do. Napoleon is less important in world history than Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

— Michel Houellebecq

“If I had had to choose my place of birth, I would have chosen a state in which everyone knew everyone else, so that…

— Christopher Ryan

“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

The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the…

— Jacques-Louis David

Jean Jacques Rousseauis nothing but a fool in my eyes when he takes it upon himself to criticise society; he did not understand it,…

— Stendhal

There's a sense in which Marx does contribute to the fund of human knowledge, and we can no more dismiss him than we can…

— Murray Bookchin