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NUMBER:47370
QUOTATION:It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
ATTRIBUTION:Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Swiss-born French philosopher, political theorist. The New Eloïse (La Nouvelle Héloïse), Rousseau’s footnote to letter 10, part 6 (1761).
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
WORKS:Rousseau Collection.
 
 
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