Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
Jean-Jacques RousseauGovernment originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.
Jean-Jacques RousseauA man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
Jean-Jacques RousseauBut I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau