Biography of rousseau french revolution quotes

The name Jean Jacques Rousseau is hardly known today, yet for over two centuries his ideas shaped the entire world.

They formed the foundation for the French Revolution, which has been called “the most important event in western history,” and have been paradoxically credited with legitimating both the direct democracy that Occupy Wall Street was based on, as well as the totalitarianism of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia.

He could be called both the father of Psychology, as well as the world’s first Hipster. He also coined the term Bourgeois and started the critique of modern industry that Environmentalism is based on.

Rousseau preferred “being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices,” and never shied away from following his train of thought wherever it led.

He was obsessed with discovering the Truth, yet had nothing but disdain for “intellectuals” and their abstract, overly-scientific jargon