Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain that an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace.
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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
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Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.]
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
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Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.
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Our greatest evil flows from ourselves.
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake'.
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Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.
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The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.
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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. v One could wish no easier death than that of Socrates, calmly discussing philosophy with his friends; one could fear nothing worse than that of Jesus, dying in torment, among the insults, the mockery, the curses of the whole nation. In the midst of these terrible sufferings, Jesus prays for his cruel murderers. Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a philosopher, the life and death of Christ are those of a God.
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
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I only see clearly what I remember.
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Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
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Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all?