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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• Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Chains

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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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• I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Political, Liberty

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Giving, Pursue

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• By doing good we become good.

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  Evil, Good And Evil, Doing Good

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

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• The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, Revolution, States

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• All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.

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  Honesty, Eye, Atheism

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• I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  World Suffering, Too Much, This World

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• Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Luxury, Riches, Poor

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.45, Courier Corporation

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, Philosophical, Reality

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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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• 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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• Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, People, Liberty

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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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