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30 likes. Like. “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.”. ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education.
- The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Education, Done, Development.
- 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.
- We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following ourown reasoning, we stuff their heads with extravagance and error.
- 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 is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected.
- People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Evil, People, Innocence.
- There are always four sides to a story: your side, their side, the truth and what really happened. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Your Side, Stories, Four.
- Freedom is the power to choose our own chains. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Chains.
- I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Freedom, Political, Liberty.
Copy text. “All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.”. ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, quote from Emile or On Education. Copy text. “وفي العلاقات بين الجنسين يبدو الذوق في فساده أو ...
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Tout est bien sortant des mains de l'Auteur des choses, tout dégénère entre les mains de l'homme.I shall always maintain that whoso says in his heart, "There is no God," while takes the name of God upon his lips, is either a liar or a madman.This collection of scattered thoughts and observations has little order or continuity; it was begun to give pleasure to a good mother who thinks for herself. My first idea was to write a tract a fe...With regard to what will be called the systematic portion of the book, which is nothing more than the course of nature, it is here that the reader will probably go wrong, and no doubt I shall be at...God makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. He forces one soil to yield the products of another, one tree to bear another's fruit. He confuses and confounds time, place,...Ambition, avarice, tyranny, the mistaken foresight of fathers, their neglect, their harshness, are a hundredfold more harmful to the child than the blind affection of the mother.Men, be kind to your fellow-men; this is your first duty, kind to every age and station, kind to all that is not foreign to humanity. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Love ch...
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.Jamais la nature ne nous trompe; c’est toujours nous qui nous trompons.Puisqu’il nous faut absolument des livres, il en existe un qui fournit, à mon gré, le plus heureux traité d’éducation naturelle. Ce livre sera le premier que lira mon Émile; seul il composera duran...Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.This interval in which the strength of the individual is in excess of his wants is, as I have said, relatively though not absolutely the time of greatest strength. It is the most precious time in h...Keep this truth ever before you—Ignorance never did any one any harm, error alone is fatal, and we do not lose our way through ignorance but through self-confidence.Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man...
I was in that state of doubt and uncertainty which Descartes considers essential to the search for truth. It is a state which cannot continue, it is disquieting and painful; only vicious tendencies...
Women have ready tongues; they talk earlier, more easily, and more pleasantly than men. They are also said to talk more; this may be true, but I am prepared to reckon it to their credit; eyes and m...
Apr 24, 2024 · Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712 – 1778) was born in Geneva (June 28) but became famous as a ‘French’ political philosopher and educationalist. Rousseau was brought up first by his father (Issac) and an aunt (his mother died a few days after his birth), and later and by an uncle.
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