Ladies and not-so-gentlemen, we've got another edition of Quote of the Day for ya. This entry comes to us from a familiar source, Jean-Jacques Rousseau's educational treatise
Emile.
This quote was chosen because when I find myself enjoying conversation, people tell me that my views are crazy, incoherent, and just plain impossible. Well my dear friends, I may be insane, but do not think I have no understanding of the world and how it works, for I do. I just choose to ignore them, or dream of a different elemental structure purer and more benevolent in its organization. Rousseau's quote adequately sums up this predicament.
“Long ago they have made up their minds that I am wandering
in the land of chimeras, while for my part I think they are dwelling in the
country of prejudice. When I wander so far from popular beliefs I do not cease
to bear them in mind; I examine them, I consider them, not that I may follow
them or shun them, but that I may weigh them in the balance of reason.”
-
Jean-Jacques Rousseau in “Emile”