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    rousseau


    1. just like Rousseau gave the Sans Culottes a hope they could never turn into reality


    2. your reality born out of the realisation that Rousseau and freedom and brotherhood


    3. You gave us a terrible hope, impossible dreams, just like Rousseau gave the Sans Culottes a hope they could never turn into reality


    4. This is your reality born out of the realisation that Rousseau and freedom and brotherhood are lies


    5. He introduced Rousseau and Marx and Catalina to the Barcs


    6. Then we have Rousseau, the prophet of the Social Contract, whose concept of the general will led more or less directly to the French Revolution and the reign of terror


    7. Jean Jacques Rousseau, n


    8. He based his defense by quoting at length from Rousseau and Mably


    9. So it was with both Rousseau and Marx


    10. What Rousseau and Marx wrote in ink, their successors wrote in blood

    11. 8 But Rousseau found this deficit an opportunity rather than a handicap


    12. However, Rousseau is aware that not everyone realizes wherein his happiness lies


    13. Just in passing, it should be noted that Rousseau was certifiably insane


    14. As Rousseau said, we will “force them to be free


    15. “The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from Bentham and Mill, Marx and Lenin, Hobbes, Rousseau, Nietzshe, I found in the non-violent resistance philosophy of Gāndhi


    16. Rousseau knocked on the bedroom door


    17. and then the boy and the Rousseau kid returned home


    18. Rousseau was also there with Ben by his side


    19. Rousseau placed his hand on the boy's shoulder


    20. Rousseau, is this an elaborate plan to steal details from me?"

    21. The elder Rousseau raised his hand to Ben asking him to stop talking


    22. Rousseau seemed to be an integral part he was never made aware of our extracurricular activities and with good reason; Ben is only eleven years old


    23. Rousseau were hunched over laughing so hard that other parents were shushing them


    24. Rousseau started laughing again soon realizing that all eyes were on them including the priest who had just begun his walk down the aisle


    25. Rousseau to burst out laughing again


    26. And to that end, the gaining of political quiescence let us also admit that the great Rousseau was wrong


    27. I had to study the thoughts and theories of Plato, Aristotle, Marx, Lenin, John Locke, Rousseau, and Mahatma Gandhi


    28. “Didn’t Rousseau observe that ruthlessness is the common characteristic of the successful; maybe I insensibly turned insensitive in their infectious company


    29. Between the fall of Adam—and the force of circumstances—and the cheapness of vicious indulgences,—and the bias of heredity—and the difficulty of knowing whom to believe—Jesus or Mohammed, Paul or Rousseau, John or Voltaire—a hopeful case must be made out forevery man; and if GOD Himself should 'judge the world in righteousness,’ He must unsay all the ancient threats of exclusion from future blessedness; and; after some fatherly chastisement of 'dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and lovers and makers of lies,’ must receive them with open arms to paradise


    30. When we have finished this, we are going to begin a translation about whales, and then some of the dullest scandals out of the second part of _Les Confessions_ we have marked for translation; somebody has told Heruvimov, that Rousseau was a kind of Radishchev

    31. They had been talking of Bonnivard, as they glided past Chillon, and of Rousseau, as they looked up at Clarens, where he wrote his Heloise


    32. When we have finished this, we are going to begin a translation about whales, and then some of the dullest scandals out of the second part of Les Confessions we have marked for translation; somebody has told Heruvimov, that Rousseau was a kind of Radishchev


    33. The problem with the whole Rousseau trip is that man is primordially a social animal, in the sense of clan or tribe


    34. ‘For instance, he is collecting a library and has made it a rule not to buy a new book till he has read what he had already bought- Sismondi and Rousseau and Montesquieu,’ he added with a smile


    35. Is the ferment of the peoples of the west at the end of the eighteenth century and their drive eastward explained by the activity of Louis XIV, XV, and XVI, their mistresses and ministers, and by the lives of Napoleon, Rousseau, Diderot, Beaumarchais, and others?


    36. We learn that Luther had a hot temper and said such and such things; we learn that Rousseau was suspicious and wrote such and such books; but we do not learn why after the Reformation the peoples massacred one another, nor why during the French Revolution they guillotined one another


    37. This is the Rue Platriere, now called Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, on account of a singular household which lived in it sixty years ago


    38. When he paid at the desk where Madam Rousseau, at that period still plump and rosy majestically presided, he gave a sou to the waiter, and Madam Rousseau gave him a smile


    39. This Restaurant Rousseau, where so few bottles and so many water carafes were emptied, was a calming potion rather than a restaurant


    40. The proprietor had a fine nickname: he was called Rousseau the Aquatic

    41. She said to her husband: "But this is abandoning our children!" Thenardier, masterful and phlegmatic, cauterized the scruple with this saying: "Jean Jacques Rousseau did even better!" From scruples, the mother proceeded to uneasiness: "But what if the police were to annoy us? Tell me, Monsieur Thenardier, is what we have done permissible?" Thenardier replied: "Everything is permissible


    42. physiocrates, Turgot at their head; the philosophers, Voltaire at their head; the Utopians, Rousseau at their head,—these are four sacred legions


    43. Diderot towards the beautiful, Turgot towards the useful, Voltaire towards the true, Rousseau towards the just


    44. The destruction of machines, the pillage of warehouses, the breaking of rails, the demolition of docks, the false routes of multitudes, the refusal by the people of justice to progress, Ramus assassinated by students, Rousseau driven out of Switzerland and stoned,—that is revolt


    45. But he who dodges hospitals and jails, and walks fast crossing graveyards, and would rather talk of operas than hell; calls Cowper, Young, Pascal, Rousseau, poor devils all of sick men; and throughout a care-free lifetime swears by Rabelais as passing wise, and therefore jolly;—not that man is fitted to sit down on tomb-stones, and break the green damp mould with unfathomably wondrous Solomon


    46. I once told the student that in hid "Confessions " Jean Jacques Rousseau describes how, as a youth, he used to behave indecently in the presence of women


    47. If Voltaire had written this now, or Rousseau, I should have just read it and thought it remarkable, but should not have been so impressed by it


    48. Plato, Rousseau, Fourier, columns of aluminium, are only fit for sparrows and not for human society


    49. He considers that Rousseau certainly told lies about himself in his confessions, and even intentionally lied, out of vanity


    50. Many and various were the expressions of human wisdom known to the men of the nineteenth century,—of Rousseau, Pascal, Lessing, and Spinoza; and all the wisdom of antiquity was expounded, but none of its systems laid hold of the crowd








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    Synonyms for "rousseau"

    jean-jacques rousseau rousseau henri rousseau le douanier rousseau

    "rousseau" definitions

    French philosopher and writer born in Switzerland; believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society; ideas influenced the French Revolution (1712-1778)


    French primitive painter (1844-1910)