Jean Jacques RousseauThinkers

Abstinence is epicurianism - the very perfection of reason - when it is practiced so as really to enjoy.

Affection is, along with our bodies, in perpetual flux.

Alienation is the powerlessness coming from the selling of one's personal freedom to another.

The Body is, along with our affections, in perpetual flux.

The Body's voice is the passions.

The Body politic is much like the human body, such that it begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

The Book is reproachable in that they tend to only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The Book is easily abused and kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

The Cat is an animal which, when it enters a room for the first time, it searches and smells about, as it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

The Child 1s 2uin is the apparent ease with which they learn.

Childhood is endowed with its own seeing, thinking and feeling, and for this reason, nature wants children to be children before men.

Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

Citizen is the name of the members of the body-politic when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, while they are called 'subjects' when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.