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A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Motivational, Moving, Men

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophical, Land, Environmental
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “The Essential Writings of Rousseau”, p.50, Modern Library

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures! Is it possible that a book at once so simple and sublime should be merely the work of man?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Book, Mean, Simple

Christ preaches only servitude and dependence... True Christians are made to be slaves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Christian, Religion, Atheism
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sad, Death, Silence

The man who gets the most out of life is not the one who has lived it longest, but the one who has felt life most deeply.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life, Men, He Man
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1956). “Emile: selections”

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mind, Body, Feeble Minds
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1763). “Emilius, Or, An Essay on Education”, p.33

Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not enough. You turn against the dead flesh, it revolts you, it must be transformed by fire, boiled and roasted, seasoned and disguised with drugs; you must have butchers, cooks, turnspits, men who will rid the murder of its horrors, who will dress the dead bodies so that the taste decieved by these disguises will not reject what is strange to it, and will feast on corpses, the very sight of which would sicken you.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Animal, Fire
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.239, eKitap Projesi

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thinking, Support, Superstitions

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dungeons, Enough, Social Contract

Money is the seed of money.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Inspirational, Seeds
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Betts (2008). “Discourse on Political Economy and The Social Contract”, p.35, Oxford University Press

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life, Cute, Philosophical

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Doe, May
Du Contrat Social bk. 3, ch. 15 (1762)

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness, Laughter, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, p.346

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

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

Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and on foot. Walking has something about it which animates and enlivens my ideas. I can hardly think while I am still; my body must be in motion to move my mind.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Moving, Journey, Thinking

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Laughter, Teaching, Heart

The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Freedom, Believe, People
"Of The Social Contract, Or Principles of Political Right" by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, translated by G. D. H. Cole, III, Ch. 15, 1913.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Hate, Book, Philosophical
Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.292, eKitap Projesi

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Pride, Vanity, Nationalism

If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People, Majority, Groups

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

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Long, Stills

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Law, Liberty, Obedience

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