Jean-Jacques Rousseau on feeling
Jean-Jacques Rousseau86 quotes“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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Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau 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.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau My birth was my first misfortune.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau 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.
Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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