“As with Hobbes, we see again, the power of fiction. Rousseau's acount of natural man was no more real than Hobbes's, but following the same pattern, once it became the accepted story of human origins, it thereby exercised the power of a self-fulfilling prophecy. In imagining Rousseau to be right, we have become what Rousseau imagined.” MenHumansRealSelfStoriesNaturalFictionPatternsFollowingAcceptedFulfillingProphecyHobbesSelf Fulfilling Prophecy Author:Benjamin Wiker
“There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.” MenFirstsBookIdeasSkinsBoundsLaughedContaining Book:10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help Source: 10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help
