Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseauwas a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 June 1712
CityGeneva, Switzerland
CountryFrance
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
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Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those of a god.
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Cities are the abyss of the human species.
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There are two things to be considered with regard to any scheme. In the first place, Is it good in itself? In the second, Can it be easily put into practice?
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
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To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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Chemistry... is like the maid occupied with daily civilisation; she is busy with fertilisers, medicines, glass, insecticides ... for she dispenses the recipes.
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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
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I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs.
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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.
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Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.