Jean-Jacques Rousseau: If we prefer to trace a lineage within the Left , drawing on the Enlightenment's own perception that individual liberty

If we prefer to trace a lineage within the Left , drawing on the Enlightenment's — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If we prefer to trace a lineage within the Left , drawing on the Enlightenment's own perception that individual liberty can undermine community , some have gone back as far as Rousseau.

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All that time is lost which might be better employed. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imi — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A country cannot subsist well without liberty , nor liberty without virtue . — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rousseau, the most powerful political writer that ever lived. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Socrates : The shoemaker, for example, uses a square tool, and a circular tool, — Plato
Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections — a mere heart of — Charles Darwin
The man who blames the supreme certainty of mathematics feeds on confusion, and — Leonardo da Vinci
A truly rational theory would allow us to deduce the elementary particles (elect — Albert Einstein
A cucumber is bitter. Throw it away. There are briars in the road. Turn aside fr — Marcus Aurelius
But ask not bodies (doomed to die), To what abode they go; Since knowledge is bu — William Davenant
En amour, celui qui est guéri le premier est toujours le mieux guéri. — François de La Rochefoucauld
Freedom all solace to man gives: He lives at ease that freely lives. — John Barbour