Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

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• People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil, People, Innocence

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• I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, Political, Liberty

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• There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Your Side, Stories, Four

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• Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

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  Chains

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• The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

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  Lying, Doe, Want

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• Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Insult To Injury, Comeback, Argument

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• The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Money, Giving, Pursue

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• Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Morality, Treats

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• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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  Inspirational, Wisdom, Kindness

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.94, The Floating Press

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• Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Freedom

  Du Contrat Social bk. 1, ch. 1 (1762)

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• Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Should

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

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• By doing good we become good.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil, Good And Evil, Doing Good

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.407, eKitap Projesi

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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  Inspirational, Life, Humorous

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.577, eKitap Projesi

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• The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

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  Education, Done, Development

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• Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.

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  People, Say Anything, Easy

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.417, eKitap Projesi

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• Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.

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  Educational, Stupid, Men

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

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• Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Freedom, People, Liberty

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• One can buy anything with money except morality.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Shopping, Morality

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• Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Race, Civilization, Evil

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• The greatest braggarts are usually the biggest cowards.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Coward, Cowardice, Braggarts

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• The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

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  War, Believe, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

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• No one is happy unless he respects himself.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Respect, Self Respect, Ethics

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• The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.

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  Sweet, Philosophical, Animal

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.142, Courier Corporation

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• I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

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  Men, Doe, Want

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2011). “Reveries of the Solitary Walker”, p.129, OUP Oxford

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• No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Fellow Man, Natural

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry John Tozer, Derek Matravers (1997). “The Social Contract”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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