Eli Schuster's View:
Synopsis: (Extract from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's "Reveries of a Solitary Walker") Feeling increasingly isolated from society, philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (self-described as "the most sensitive of beings") takes a series of long walks to commune with nature and "escape from the horde of evil doers."
What I learned: Rousseau was an intelligent and deeply introspective guy with a huge persecution complex.
Memorable Line: "when death is already at the door, is it worth learning how we should have lived?"
You Might Like This Book If: the world is getting you down, and you don't want to go where everybody knows your name.
Yikes!: "I reached the age of forty, oscillating between poverty and riches, wisdom and error, full of vices born of habit, but with a heart free of evil inclinations, living at random with no rational principles, and careless but not scornful of my duties, of which I was often not fully aware. Since the days of my youth I had fixed on the age of forty as the end of my efforts to succeed, the final term of my various ambitions."
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