The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUCivilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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.
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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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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 imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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