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Benjamin Wiker Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth Picture Quote #1

Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles Picture Quote #1

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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 (Benjamin Wiker Quotes) Sometimes a clearly defined error is the only way to discover the truth (Benjamin Wiker Quotes) Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles (Benjamin Wiker Quotes)