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.

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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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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Educational, Stupid, Men

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

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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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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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Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Heart, Men, Arguing

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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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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.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Passion, Men, Two

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Race, Civilization, Evil

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Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Motivational, Moving, Two

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Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Justice, Diversity, Judging

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Allan David Bloom (2010). “Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries”, p.355, UPNE

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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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Living is not breathing but doing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life, Breathing

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Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Book, Mean, Simple

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Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Suffering, Libertarian, Injustice

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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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In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Punishment, Criminals, Decay

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.145, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Respect, Self Respect, Ethics

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Born: June 28, 1712
Died: July 2, 1778
Occupation: Philosopher
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