Jacques rousseau Quote by Paul Johnson

“[Rousseau is] the person whom I most revere both for the Force of [his] Genius and the Greatness of [his] mind [...]”

— 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

“What’s crucial about Rousseau, and many of his ideological successors, is that politics was always personal for him, unlike those whom Tocqueville faulted for…

— Pankaj Mishra

“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

“The first articulate explorer and to an extent even theorist of intimacy was Jean-Jacques Rousseau who, characteristically enough, is the only great author still…

— Hannah Arendt

“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence, in his…

— Noam Chomsky

“I have always been interested in this man . My father had a set of Tom Paine 's books on the shelf at home.…

— Thomas A. Edison

“The recent explosions, from India to the United States, of ressentiment against writers and journalists as well as politicians, technocrats, businessmen and bankers reveal…

— Pankaj Mishra

“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

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

However, it was the great 18th century social philosophers John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau who brought the concept of a social contract…

— Simon Mainwaring

“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