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To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ou — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ou — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile or On Education
Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure. — Robert Zaretsky
Rousseau identified reason as the disease for which it pretended to be the cure. — Robert Zaretsky
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me — I see Him all around me.
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me — I see Him all around me.
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views — Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views — Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind
The world of reality has its limits — the world of imagination is boundless.
The world of reality has its limits — the world of imagination is boundless.
More than half of my life is past — I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.
More than half of my life is past — I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.
We must powder our wigs — that is why so many poor people have no bread.
We must powder our wigs — that is why so many poor people have no bread.
I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music — but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.
I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music — but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against which prejudices are powerless. I soon contracted the passion it inspires in all those born to understand it.
When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writ — Cédric Klapisch
When you begin a new story, your job is to envision, to try to glimpse stuff that doesn't as yet exist. That's what writ — Cédric Klapisch
For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the — Bertrand Russell
For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the — Bertrand Russell
It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free so — Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
It is passing strange that our philosophers of the Revolutionary period should have formed their conception of a free so — Bertrand De Jouvenel, On Power
How do you keep all the balls you got dancing in the air from crashing down on your fucking head, Rousseau?""Centuries o — Heather R. Blair, Phoenix Broken
How do you keep all the balls you got dancing in the air from crashing down on your fucking head, Rousseau?""Centuries o — Heather R. Blair, Phoenix Broken
Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: "They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never co — Robert Zaretsky, The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
Rousseau pounced. Men who dislike cats were tyrannical: "They do not like cats because the cat is free and will never co — Robert Zaretsky, The Philosophers' Quarrel: Rousseau, Hume, and the Limits of Human Understanding
The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some ki — Stephan Attia
The fact that Man is Nature’s perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some ki — Stephan Attia
All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong — he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.
All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong — he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.