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philosophybits · 3 months

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It is not easy for a man to begin to think; but once he has begun he will never leave off. Once a thinker, always a thinker, and the understanding once practised in reflection will never rest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education

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thoughtkick · 11 months

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I might be no better, but at least I am different.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One reason why a couple of my American male work colleagues left America for Europe because they were annoyed by young college educated women dropping their authentic regional accents (some are even melodic to listen to) for this all too pervasive annoying nasal whine. This is not cool. Just super grating on the nerves.

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surqrised · 7 months

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I might be no better, but at least I am different.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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perfectquote · 1 year

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I might be no better, but at least I am different.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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stay-close · 8 months

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I might be no better, but at least I am different.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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dreams-of-mutiny · 4 months

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We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

Man is born free, and is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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entheognosis · 1 year

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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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bocadosdefilosofia · 1 month

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«Es cierto por tanto que la piedad es un sentimiento natural que, moderando en cada individuo la actividad de amor de sí mismo, concurre a la conservación mutua de toda la especie. Es ella la que, sin reflexión, nos lleva en socorro de aquellos a quienes vemos sufrir; es ella la que, en el estado de naturaleza, hace de leyes, de costumbres y de virtud, con la ventaja de que nadie se siente tentado a desobedecer a su dulce voz: es ella la que hará desistir a todo salvaje robusto a quitar a un débil niño, o a un viejo inválido, su subsistencia adquirida con esfuerzo, si él mismo espera poder encontrar la suya en otra parte; es ella la que, en lugar de esta máxima sublime de justicia razonada, haz con otro lo que quieras que hagan contigo, inspira a todos los hombres esta otra máxima de bondad natural mucho menos perfecta, pero más útil quizá que la precedente: Haz tu bien con el menor mal posible para otro.»

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: «Discurso sobre el origen y fundamentos de la desigualdad entre los hombres», en Discurso sobre las ciencias y las artes / Discurso sobre el origen de la desigualdad entre los hombres. Alianza Editorial, págs. 150-151. Madrid, 2012.

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weil-weil-lautre · 9 months

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In a well-conducted city everyone flies to the assemblies; under a bad Government no one likes to take a step to go to them; because no one takes an interest in what is done there, because it is predictable that the general will will not prevail in them, and finally because domestic concerns are all-absorbing. Good laws lead to making better ones, bad laws bring about worse ones. As soon as someone says about affairs of the State[,] What do I care? the State has to be considered lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Of the Social Contract, Book III, Chapter 15, p. 114

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philosophybits · 7 months

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There is no soul so vile, no heart so barbarous, that it is not susceptible of some kind of attachment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

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dreaminginthedeepsouth · 8 months

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Artwork: Vittorio Giardino

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“…it has always been a fancy of mine to read as I eat when I am on my own; it makes up for the lack of society. I devour a page and a mouthful alternately, and it is as if my book were dining with me.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

[Belles-lettres]

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majestativa · 5 months

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Ambrosia of Olympus you must not refuse me peach-wine ! Charm of my eyes, I thank you for the fine print of Rousseau that you sent me. Torch of my life, when will your alabaster fingers come like that and exchange Lieutenant Charles's fetters for the roses of your breast? Adieu, I kiss it and go to sleep.

— Marquis de Sade, from a letter to Madame de Sade, written c. November 23-24, 1783, featured in Selected Letters, transl by W.J. Strachan, (1965)

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comparativetarot · 6 months

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