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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Animal, Reflection, Men
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”, p.7, Courier Corporation

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Way, Half

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Motivational, Trust, Nature

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Children, Philosophical, Learning

It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Believe, Reality, Men

God made me and broke the mold.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mold, Broke, Made

There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education, Book, Buffon

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life, Nature, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.169, Basic Books

Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Order, Soul, Doubt

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Women, Men, Please
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2006). “Emile on Education: Easyread Large Edition”, p.57, ReadHowYouWant.com

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Made
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alan Ritter, Julia Conaway Bondanella (1988). “Rousseau's political writings: new translations, interpretive notes, backgrounds, commentaries”, W. W. Norton & Company

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Philosophical, Opposites, Risk

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Past, Joy

Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for a moment, it trusts nothing until it has examined and made acquaintance with everything.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cat, Smell, Watches

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Innocence, Guilty, Ashamed
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.217, Basic Books

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Patience, Sweet, Fruit

Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Thinking, Childhood, Feelings
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Men, Vanity, Mad
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.249, Courier Corporation

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Lying, Knowledge, Intelligent
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2008). “Profession of Faith of a Savoyard Vicar”, p.275, Wildside Press LLC

We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Education, Children, Errors

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nature, Character, Men

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Truth, Eye, Men
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With The Reveries of the Solitary Walker”

We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.19, Courier Corporation

It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Support, World, Conquer

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Knowledge, Men, Silence
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education”, p.208

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