Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - Page 5

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• If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Majority, Groups

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• The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knowledge, Limits, Knows

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006). “Emile on Education Volume Ii EasyRead la”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fall, Home, Blow

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• When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Hands, Generosity

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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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• Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Nature, Children, Men

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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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• 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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• Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Men, Arguing

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• Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Adversity, Sleep

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1856). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau”, p.110

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• It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Technology, Age

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• All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Teaching, Men, Needs

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

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• The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Gunpowder, Lost

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• Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Funny, Weed, Wedding

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• Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil, Flow

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763). “Emilius; Or, an Essay on Education”, p.22

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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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• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Voice, Soul

  "Emile: Or, On Education".

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• One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  May, Doe, Dungeons

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• Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Innocence, Guilty, Ashamed

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.217, Basic Books

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• I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Hate, Book, Philosophical

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.292, eKitap Projesi

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• A feeble body weakens the mind.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mind, Body, Feeble Minds

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763). “Emilius, Or, An Essay on Education”, p.33

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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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• Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, People, Mind

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.369, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sports, Laughter, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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• A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Women, Men, Please

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006). “Emile on Education: Easyread Large Edition”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

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