World Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

14 World quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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If you’re curious about how Rousseau framed the world, this short set gives a clear taste of his thinking. Though modest in size, the quotes capture his core ideas without overwhelming you.

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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.

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I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.

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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

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The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.]

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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from…

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The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

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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…

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It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world,…

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Singing and dancing alone will not advance one in the world. [Fr., Qui bien chante et bien danse fait un metier qui…

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As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.

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Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the…

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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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I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for…

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I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,…

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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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