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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes

French Philosopher, Writer June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see..."
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said "This is mine," and found people nave enough to believe him, that man was the true founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not any one have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows: Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be..."
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too..."
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."
The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "What wisdom can you find greater than kindness."
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?"
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should..."
In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "The English think they are free. They are free only during the..."
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Base souls have no faith in great individuals."
Base souls have no faith in great individuals. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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