Keith Rousseau // Wikimedia Commons #52. Chesapeake Bay retriever - Last year's rank: #48 (down 4) Chesapeake Bay retrievers were originally used to hunt and retrieve ducks in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. Today, the dog remains a hunting breed that is also known to be an ideal companion ...
It is generally acknowledged that there is no record of Marie Antoinette saying "Let them eat cake." (Her own letters reflect a much more responsible attitude to the problems of the poor. Rousseau in 1740 referred to a similar remark as a well-known saying, and in 1823 Marie Antoinette's...
As we saw in our last instalment, removing God, and especially Christianity, from any role in society was a clearly defined goal of the intellectuals of the later Enlightenment – men like Diderot, Voltaire, Rousseau, Chateaubriand, and many others both inside France and in wider Europe. The ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: In his works like “The Social Contract,” Rousseau discusses the collective social arrangement as a contract between individuals and the community, highlighting the interdependence of members in a society. John Locke: Locke, in his theories about social contract and civil soci...
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So great is human weakness, that we must reckon amongst virtuous actions abstentionfrom the evils which weare tempted to commit. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau 88 Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of...
Insults are the arguments employedby those who are in the wrong. —Jean-Jacques Rousseau 92 Don't feel sorry for yourself if you have chosen the wrong road. Turn around. Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward —Thomas A. Edison ...
She argued that she was more connected to God reading her Rousseau than when she was at mass listening to Padre Ignacio saying the Nicene Religious belief. "He sounds like he's gargling with words," she made fun. "I worry that you're losing your faith," I told her. "That's our ...
However, the heart view continued to be asserted by an enlightened few. A central critic of the Enlightenment glorification of intellect and reason was the Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), who pointed to the endless examples of a natural sympathy t...
Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other. —James Harvey Robinson The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. —Jean-Baptiste Rousseau ...