Children Quote by Susan Neiman

“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

“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 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

“in 1762, Rousseau argued that puberty had such fundamental emotional and mental effects that it represented “a second birth.”

— Jon Savage

“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

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

— Daniel Silva

“The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between…

— Niall Ferguson

“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

“The world as first seen by the child becomes his lifelong standard of excellence, mindless of the fact he is admiring the ruins of…

— William Stolzenburg

“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