Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

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• People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil, People, Innocence

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• There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Your Side, Stories, Four

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• Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Chains

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• I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Political, Liberty

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• A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Thinking, Hands

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.53, eKitap Projesi

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• The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Character, Men

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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  Inspirational, Life, Humorous

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Lying, Doe, Want

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• Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Morality, Treats

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• The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Giving, Pursue

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• Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

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  Heart, Should

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library

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• Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

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  Educational, Stupid, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.38, Basic Books

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• By doing good we become good.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil, Good And Evil, Doing Good

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.407, eKitap Projesi

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• The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

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  Art, Philosophical, Reality

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• The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

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  War, Believe, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

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• I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Long, Stills

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• To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  World, Madness, Madmen

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• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 1 (1762)

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• The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Coward, Cowardice, Braggarts

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• One can buy anything with money except morality.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Shopping, Morality

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• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kindness

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

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  Heart, Past, Joy

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• Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Race, Civilization, Evil

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• Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

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  Sports, Laughter, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Delight

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