Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• 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

• Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Philosophy, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.350, eKitap Projesi

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Race, Civilization, Evil

• By doing good we become good.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil, Good And Evil, Doing Good

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

• Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil, Flow

• Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil, Flow

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

• Physical evils destroy themselves, or they destroy us.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Evil

• Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Evil, Be Good

• We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sympathy, Philosophy, Philosophical

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