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The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Order, Visible, Supreme

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.526, The Floating Press

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God made me and broke the mold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mold, Broke, Made

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A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Motivational, Moving, Men

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Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Memories, Smell, Desire

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To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Children, Philosophical, Learning

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The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Pride, Vanity, Nationalism

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I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thinking, Support, Superstitions

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Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature, Character, Men

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Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Desire, May, Want

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Sacrifice life to truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth, Sacrifice

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Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Vanity, Mad

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.249, Courier Corporation

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Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Book, Mean, Simple

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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Lying, Knowledge, Intelligent

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2008). “Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.275, Wildside Press LLC

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Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Order, Soul, Doubt

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I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Doubt, Church, Revolution

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.276, Courier Corporation

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Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Perfection, Abstinence, Reason

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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Citizens, Riches, Enough

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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Generally we obtain very surely and very speedily what we are not too anxious to obtain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Anxiety, Anxious

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Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Cat, Smell, Watches

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosophical, Desire, Philosopher

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There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education, Book, Buffon

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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Patience, Sweet, Fruit

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To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Passion, Independent, Men

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Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men, Eulogy, Age

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The passions are the voice of the body.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Passion, Voice, Body

Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.476, eKitap Projesi

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Born: June 28, 1712
Died: July 2, 1778
Occupation: Philosopher
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