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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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.
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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.
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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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The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
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The strongest is never strong enough always to be master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
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Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it's the one they will most need to know.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body
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Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
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Most people believe that the longer you let these things go, the more likely you are to have something go wrong.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.