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.

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  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.

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  Your Side, Stories, Four

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• Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

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  Chains

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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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• I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

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  Freedom, Political, Liberty

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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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• 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.

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  Lying, Doe, Want

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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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• 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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• Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

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  Moving, Journey, Thinking

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

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

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

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  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!

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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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• Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

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  Thinking, Childhood, Feelings

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

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• Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

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  Escaping, Desire, Slavery

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.88, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

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  Philosophical, Land, Environmental

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “The Essential Writings of Rousseau”, p.50, Modern Library

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• Living is not breathing but doing.

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  Life, Breathing

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

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  Race, Civilization, Evil

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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.

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  People, Say Anything, Easy

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

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• A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

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  Women, Men, Please

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006). “Emile on Education: Easyread Large Edition”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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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.

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  Rocks, Years, Giving

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• Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

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  Desire, May, Want

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• Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

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  Inspirational, Education, Maturity

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