Jeanjacquesrousseau Quote by Robert Zaretsky

“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

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

— David Hume

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

— Camille Paglia

“The effort to cure disease has been, without doubt, the greatest curse that has ever been perpetrated upon the human race. The idea that…

— Herbert M. Shelton

“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

“When you have the means and information to cure a disease and don't . . . you are the disease.”

— Richard Diaz

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

— Bertrand Russell

“Not that long disease, my life, but that long convalescence, my life. The liberal-bourgeois revision, the illusion of improvement, the poison of hope.”

— Saul Bellow

“He had spent most of his lifetime studying the art of medicine and realized now that he would never really understand its mysteries. For…

— Erich Segal

“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

“I began to come into close contact with poverty, with hunger, with disease, with the inability to cure a child because of a lack…

— Ernesto Che Guevara

“We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all disease.”

— Thomas Browne