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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Genevan Enlightenment philosopher whose ideas on the social contract, human goodness, and education transformed modern politics and inspired the Romantic movement.

Frases de Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  • “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
    Filosófico
  • “Nature made man happy and good, but society depraves him and makes him miserable.”
    Crítica social
  • “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.”
    Crítica social
  • “To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act, it is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties.”
    Reflexão existencial
  • “Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
    Motivacional
  • “It takes a lot of knowledge to know how to ask for what one does not know.”
    Epistemológico
  • “The only moral lesson suited to childhood, and the most important at any age, is never to do harm to anyone.”
    Educacional
  • “Cities are the abyss of the human species.”
    Crítica social
  • “Liberty is a food that is good to taste, but hard to digest.”
    Filosófico-Político
  • “Conscience is the voice of the soul; passions are the voice of the body.”
    Reflexão
  • “Where there is no law, there is no liberty.”
    Filosofia Política
  • “The only effective education is that which is by example.”
    Pedagogia
  • “A good man is an athlete who loves to wrestle naked.”
    Crítica Social
  • “Generally, those who know little speak much, and those who know much speak little.”
    Reflexão
  • “All wickedness comes from weakness.”
    Ética
  • “The heart of man finds no comfort for what it has lost except in what it has left.”
    Sentimental
  • “To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man.”
    Filosofia Política
  • “Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.”
    Observação
  • “The use of time makes it even more precious.”
    Motivacional
  • “Sovereignty cannot be represented for the same reason that it cannot be alienated.”
    Teoria Política

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