Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - Page 3

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Men, Thinking

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Gratitude, Philosophical, Inspirational Christmas

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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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• There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Periods, Backwards

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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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• We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Education, Children, Errors

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• The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Women, Tears, Addresses

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Hands, World

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

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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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• Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fall, Teach, Fall Back

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.288, eKitap Projesi

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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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Two, Physicians

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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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• Living is not breathing but doing.

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  Life, Breathing

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  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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• 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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• Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Religious, Believer, Rascals

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