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" "Todo su saber se queda en la sensación y no llega al entendimiento.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (June 28, 1712 – July 2, 1778) was a major French-speaking Genevan philosopher of Enlightenment whose political ideas influenced the French Revolution, the development of socialist theory, and the growth of nationalism.
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Since everything that comes into the human mind enters through the gates of sense, man's first reason is a reason of sense-experience. It is this that serves as a foundation for the reason of the intelligence; our first teachers in natural philosophy are our feet, hands, and eyes. To substitute books for them does not teach us to reason, it teaches us to use the reason of others rather than our own; it teaches us to believe much and know little.
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Les Russes ne seront jamais vraiment policés, parce quʼils lʼont été trop tôt. Pierre avoit le génie imitatif; il nʼavoit pas le vrai génie, celui qui crée & fait tout de rien. ... Il a dʼabord voulu faire des Allemands, des Anglois, quand il faloit commencer par faire des Russes; il a empêché ses sujets de devenir jamais ce quʼils pourroient être, en leur persuadant quʼils étoient ce quʼils ne sont pas.