Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - Page 3

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• All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Wells, Fellows

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• Finance is a slave's word.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Finance, Slave

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry John Tozer, Derek Matravers (1997). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Wordsworth Editions

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• Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Truth, Philosophical, Infinity

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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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• The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Hurt, Children, Important

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.139, eKitap Projesi

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• Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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• If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  God, People, Sane

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• Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Religion, Atheism

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• Social man lives constantly outside himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Social

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2005). “On the Origin of Inequality”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Existence

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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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• 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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• Cities are the abyss of the human species.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Cities, Abyss, Humans

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.59, Basic Books

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• Living is not breathing but doing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Breathing

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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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• Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Religious, Believer, Rascals

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• My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Delight

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Escaping, Desire, Slavery

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

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• Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Misfortunes

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law

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• The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Deceived

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.131, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Greatness, Men, Use

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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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