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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Life, Humorous

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

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  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.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Educational, Stupid, Men

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

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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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• Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Funny, Weed, Wedding

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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 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!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Believe, Men

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

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• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

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  Passion, Men, Two

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• The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Men, He Man

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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• I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Prejudice, Paradox

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Richard Lawrence Archer (1964). “Jean Jacques Rousseau: His Educational Theories Selected from Émile, Julie and Other Writings”, p.98, Barron's Educational Series

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kindness

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

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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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• No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fellow Man, Natural

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry John Tozer, Derek Matravers (1997). “The Social Contract”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wise, Children, Taught

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1894). “Émile; Or, Concerning Education: Extracts Containing the Principal Elements of Pedagogy Found in the First Three Books”

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• I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

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  Men, Doe, Want

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2011). “Reveries of the Solitary Walker”, p.129, OUP Oxford

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• No one is happy unless he respects himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Respect, Self Respect, Ethics

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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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• Do not base your life on the judgments of others; first, because they are as likely to be mistaken as you are, and further, because you cannot know that they are telling you their true thoughts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Firsts, Judgment, Mistaken

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• I may be no better, but at least I am different.

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  Different, May

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953). “The Confessions”

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• I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Rocks, Years, Giving

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• Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Say Anything, Easy

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.417, eKitap Projesi

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