Truth Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

14 Truth quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s musings on truth reveal his belief in natural honesty as a foundation for society and the self, delivered in his characteristic philosophical voice.

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Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

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Sacrifice life to truth.

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The truth brings no man a fortune.

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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!

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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

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There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened.

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

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The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the…

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Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so…

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“To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural…

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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that…

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My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are… If I want to depict spring, it has to be in…

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“I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed…

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Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of…

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

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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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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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“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

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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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Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I…

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“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -…

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The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and…

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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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