I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
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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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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To do is to be.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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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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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
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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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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.
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