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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Hands, World
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Greatness, Men, Use

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Religious, Believer, Rascals

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Teaching, Men, Needs
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Law, People, Majority

Finance is a slave's word.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Finance, Slave
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Henry John Tozer, Derek Matravers (1997). “The Social Contract”, p.95, Wordsworth Editions

Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Misfortunes
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile or Concerning Education”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge, Limits, Knows
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006). “Emile on Education Volume Ii EasyRead la”, p.175, ReadHowYouWant.com

One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
May, Doe, Dungeons

I love idleness. I love to busy myself about trifles, to begin a hundred things and not finish one of them, to come and go as my fancy bids me, to change my plan every moment, to follow a fly in all its circlings, to try and uproot a rock to see what is underneath, eagerly to begin a ten-years' task to give it up after ten minutes: in short, to fritter away the whole day inconsequentially and incoherently, and to follow nothing but the whim of the moment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rocks, Years, Giving

In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fall, Home, Blow

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Inspirational, Delight

A person who can break wind is not dead.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wind, Break, Persons

Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Innocence, Ashamed
Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Fall, Teach, Fall Back
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.288, eKitap Projesi

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Perfect, Appearance, Subjection
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Allan David Bloom (2010). “Emile, Or, On Education: Includes Emile and Sophie, Or, The Solitaries”, p.257, UPNE

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

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

Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Art, People, Mind
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.369, Jean Jacques Rousseau

One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thinking, Slave, Masters
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.1, Courier Corporation

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
World Suffering, Too Much, This World

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
God, People, Sane

Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Memories, Smell, Desire

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophical, Desire, Philosopher

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cities, Abyss, Humans
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.59, Basic Books

The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just as gunpowder scattered on the ground ignites only grain by grain.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People, Gunpowder, Lost

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