Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - Page 4

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• My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Delight

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Good Man, Pay

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• It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Majority Rule, Political, Minorities

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• You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Land, Environmental

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “The Essential Writings of Rousseau”, p.50, Modern Library

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• It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Law, People, Majority

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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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• Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Peace, Men, Thinking

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

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

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• One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Slave, Masters

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.1, Courier Corporation

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• Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Moving, Journey, Thinking

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• Rather suffer an injustice than commit one.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suffering, Libertarian, Injustice

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• The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Believe, People

  "Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole, III, Ch. 15, 1913.

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• Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Animal, Fire

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi

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• Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Riches, Firsts

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.621, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Liberty, Slavery

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau, transl”, p.30

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• Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Cute, Philosophical

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• Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sad, Death, Silence

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• The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Suffering, Miserable, Enjoy

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.91, eKitap Projesi

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• Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Education, Maturity

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• Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Innocence, Ashamed

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

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