Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - Page 8

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• She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Shoes, Ties, Unattractive

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• Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love, Hate, Heart

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• Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Soul, Doubt

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• We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.19, Courier Corporation

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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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• The French painter Rousseau was once asked why he put a naked woman on a red sofa in the middle of his jungle pictures. He answered, 'I needed a bit of red there.'

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Naked, Red, Middle

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• The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being opened: and if he ever obtains justice, it is with much greater difficulty than others obtain favors.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Doors, Justice, Diversity

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library

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• Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Curiosity, Taught

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• Posterity is always just.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Reputation, Posterity

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly (1998). “The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to Malesherbes”, p.582, UPNE

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• The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

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  Children, Philosophical, Order

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• A person who can break wind is not dead.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wind, Break, Persons

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• I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Swag, Said

  "Confessions". Book by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, VIII, 1782.

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• [When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive way, we can help make that good future come true.]

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  Thinking, Example, May

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• Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Mind, Use

  Emile Bk 1 (1762)

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Patience, Sweet, Fruit

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• It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Illumination, Soul

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953). “The Confessions”

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• Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.

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  Art, Knowledge, Genius

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• Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

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  Men, Way, Half

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• Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.

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  Son, Men, May

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• Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Laughter, Law, Internet

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

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• I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

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  Men, Able, Should

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• How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

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  Philosophical, Hero, Long

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• Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

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  Faith, Soul, Individual

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• An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

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  Philosophy, Intelligent, Self

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• The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Soul, Taste, Splendor

  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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