The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Renunciar a la libertad es renunciar a la condición de hombre.

"Though it may be the peculiar happiness of Socrates and other geniuses of his stamp, to reason themselves into virtue, the human species would long ago have ceased to exist, had it depended entirely for its preservation on the reasonings of the individuals that compose it." Par 1, 36

He is no longer himself, but has become an automaton who has ceased to be guided by his will.