Phil Ere

“What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Lasting Peace Through the Federation of Europe and the State of War

“It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

“The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker