Date: 1762
"Après avoir ainsi, de l’impression des objets sensibles & du sentiment intérieur qui me porte à juger des causes selon mes lumières naturelles, déduit les principales vérités qu’il m’importoit de connaître, il me reste a chercher que, es maximes j’en dois tirer pour ma conduite, & quelles règles...
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: 1762
"Plus tard, la substance est durcie, & les nouvelles empreintes ne marquent plus. Jeune homme, recevez dans votre âme, encore flexible, le cachet de la vérité."
preview | full record— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778)
Date: January 1762
"Sans cet art, mon âme se pliant avec peine à des biais chimériques, l’illusion ne serait que momentanée et l’impression faible et passagère. [Without this art, my mind would easily take to the paths of fantasy, there would be only a fleeting illusion and a faint, passing impression.]"
preview | full record— Diderot, Denis (1713-1784)
Date: 1787
"That frequently happens; and when once a false idea is impressed, it is very difficult to erase it, particularly at your age; as you are not yet capable of distinguishing the false from the true."
preview | full record— Louise Florence Pétronille Tardieu d'Ésclavelles Épinay (marquise d') (1726-1783)
Date: 1927
"This book, more laborious to decipher than any other, is also the only one which has been dictated to us by reality, the only one of which the 'impression' has been printed in us by reality itself."
preview | full record— Proust, Marcel (1871-1922)