Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - Page 6

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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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• As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Doe, May

  Du Contrat Social bk. 3, ch. 15 (1762)

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• Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Opposites, Risk

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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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• The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Women, Reading, Book

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• Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Responsibility, Childhood, Wake Up

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• Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Motivational, Trust, Nature

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• He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Death, Fear, Lying

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• The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Animal, Reflection, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, May, Covenant

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• I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Long, Stills

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• It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Nature, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.169, Basic Books

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• To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, Writing, Mean

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• General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Truth, Eye, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With The Reveries of the Solitary Walker”

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• It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Support, World, Conquer

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• Money is the seed of money.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Seeds

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts (2008). “Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract”, p.35, Oxford University Press

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• Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Needs, Birth, Given

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.38, Basic Books

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• Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Men, Desire

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.392, Courier Corporation

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• Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Childhood, Feelings

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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• Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Real, Men, Two

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

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• There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Dungeons, Enough, Social Contract

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• Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Past, Joy

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• Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Laughter, Teaching, Heart

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• We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Birthday, Education, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.17, eKitap Projesi

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• That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Desire, Doe

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.99, eKitap Projesi

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