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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• There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Periods, Backwards

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• Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Insult To Injury, Comeback, Argument

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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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• 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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• Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Real, Men, Two

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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• It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Desire, Oneself

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• The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Done, Development

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Happiness, Self, Supreme

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.292, Courier Corporation

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• Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Greatness, Men, Use

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• The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Soul, Mind, Proportion

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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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• If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  God, People, Sane

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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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• My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Delight

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