I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest; as I could not accept absurd decisions, I was deprived of those which were not absurd. When I was told to believe everything, I could believe nothing, and I knew not where to stop.


Emile: Or, On Education (1762)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject ...

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject ...

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject ...

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject ...