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

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us can be kept; but as soon as the situation changes, habit ceases and the natural returns. Education is certainly only habit. Now are there not people who forget and lose their education? Others who keep it? Where does this difference come from? If the name nature were limited to habits conformable to nature, we would spare ourselves this garble! Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people in the world? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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! Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying 'this is mine', and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived..." (Bk2:3) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men..."
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but..."
Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it..."
Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their..."
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quote: "Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome."
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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