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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
There was a certain positive originality, however slight, to be detected in him, and I occasionally observed that he was thinking for himself and expressing his own opinion, a phenomenon so rare that I would any day walk ten miles to observe it, and it amounted to the re-origination of many of the institutions of society.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
He gave it to the use of the industrious and rational (and labour was to be his title to it), not to the fancy or covetousness of the quarrelsome and contentious.
John Locke • The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration (Dover Thrift Editions: Political Science)
“Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz • Everybody Lies: The New York Times Bestseller
The ancient law giver was a benevolent myth; the modern law giver is a terrifying reality. The world has become more like that of Machiavelli than it was, and the modern man who hopes to refute his philosophy must think more deeply than seemed necessary in the nineteenth century.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
John Stuart Mill once said: “Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Do Contrato Social (Portuguese Edition)
Émile (or On Education), published in 1762, Jean-Jacques Rousseau used the fictional example of a boy called Émile to argue that a child can learn everything he needs to without interference from adults.