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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• It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mind, Host, Concern

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• One can buy anything with money except morality.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Shopping, Morality

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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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• 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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• The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liberty, Revolution, States

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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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• Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Deceiving, Reason, Conscience

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• Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, Liberty, Obedience

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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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• 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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• Girls must be thwarted early in life.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Girl, British History

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• The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Coward, Cowardice, Braggarts

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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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• 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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• Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Good Man, Pay

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• No one is happy unless he respects himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Respect, Self Respect, Ethics

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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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• 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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• 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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• I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Melting, Delirium, Ecstasy

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