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
lying knowledge intelligent
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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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies
children lying men
We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.
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The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
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The person who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
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With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.
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Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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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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However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
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When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.