Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes - Page 6

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• Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sports, Laughter, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.50, Courier Corporation

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Pride, Vanity, Nationalism

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• A person who can break wind is not dead.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Wind, Break, Persons

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• I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Melting, Delirium, Ecstasy

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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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• Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Inspirational, Education, Maturity

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• 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

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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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• To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no indemnity is possible. Such a renunciation is incompatible with man's nature; to remove all liberty from his will is to remove all morality from his acts.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Rights, Humanity

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Jean Jacques Rousseau

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• The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Women, Tears, Addresses

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Perfection, Abstinence, Reason

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• A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Vanity, Fool

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Lying, Knowledge, Intelligent

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

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Hero, Long

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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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• I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.

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  Believe, Being Different, Venture

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1996). “The Confessions”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

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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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• Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Twins, Anticipation, Born

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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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• Even knaves may be made good for something.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Knavery, May, Knaves

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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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