Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

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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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• 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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• I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Political, Liberty

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Morality, Treats

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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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• 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 thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

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  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, p.346

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• Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess

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  Men, Two, Physicians

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Giving, Pursue

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Soul, Mind, Proportion

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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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• 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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• One can buy anything with money except morality.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Shopping, Morality

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  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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• Reason deceives us; conscience, never.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Deceiving, Reason, Conscience

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• The bigger a state becomes the more liberty diminishes.

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  Liberty, Revolution, States

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• Girls must be thwarted early in life.

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  Girl, British History

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• Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.

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  Jesus, Pain, Wish To Die

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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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• Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Dignity, Virtue

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