Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Philosopher, Writer, Composer

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss philosopher whose ideas on freedom and social contracts profoundly influenced modern political thought and education.

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Born
June 28, 1712
Died
July 2, 1778
Quotes
388
Rank
#53

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"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 in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts."

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"We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education."

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"Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have."

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"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it."

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"If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?"

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"Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man"

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"Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves."

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"We cannot work for others without working for ourselves."

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"Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil."

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"God made me and broke the mold."

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"When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime."

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"The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty."

Strength Strong Enough
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"One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they."

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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 striking, so utterly inimitable, that the invention of it would be more astonishing than the hero."

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"We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them."

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"When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason."

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"Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing."

Law
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