Everything on earth is in continuous flux: nothing preserves a constant fixed form, and our affections towards external things pass and change with t… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
" "Everything on earth is in continuous flux: nothing preserves a constant fixed form, and our affections towards external things pass and change with them... There is nothing solid to which the heart can attach itself. Also, there is scarcely a pleasure here below which does not pass; as for enduring happiness, I doubt that it can be known. In our most vivid joys there is scarcely an instant at which our hearts could truly say: would that this moment might last forever; and how can one call that transient state happy which still leaves our hearts disturbed and empty, which makes us regret something beforehand or still desire something afterwards.
About Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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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Çünkü hakkı doğuran güç ise, etkiyle birlikte etken de değişir. Bir öncekini alt eden bir güç, onun hakkını da elde eder. Ceza görmeden baş kaldırabildiniz mi, bu başkaldırma bir hak olabilir. Madem güçlü her zaman haklıdır, öyleyse yapılacak şey, her zaman güçlü olmaya bakmaktır. Güçlünün yok olmasıyla ortadan kalkan bir hakka hak diyebilir miyiz? İnsan boyun eğecek olduktan sonra, ödev dolayısıyla niye boyun eğsin? İnsan boyun eğmeye zorlanıyorsa, boyun eğmek zorunda değil demektir. Görülüyor ki, hak sözü güç’e hiçbir şey eklemiyor; bu bakımdan hiçbir anlam da taşımıyor.
Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know. Among the most necessary knowledge is the knowledge of how to live well, that is, how to produce the least possible evil and the greatest goodness in one’s life. At present, people study useless sciences, but forget to study this, the most important knowledge.