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Body Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

16 Body quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau saw the body as a bridge between nature and society, and these sixteen excerpts reveal his romantic yet critical eye. You’ll encounter a mix of tenderness and critique, reflecting his belief that our physical selves shape, and are shaped by, the surrounding world.

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The passions are the voice of the body.

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A feeble body weakens the mind.

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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often…

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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he…

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It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body…

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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged…

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The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the…

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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with…

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We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in…

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The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power"…

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Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and…

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The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the…

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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two…

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Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just…

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Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not…

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

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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

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“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions…

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I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

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“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people…

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