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Nature Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor…
- Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man…
- To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who renounces everything no…
- Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more…
- Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is…
- Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
- Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
- I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a…
- I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
- The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have…
- To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions…
- Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be…
- Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves
More Nature Quotes
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle