The child ought to love his mother before knowing that he o… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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The child ought to love his mother before knowing that he ought to. If the voice of blood is not strengthened by habit and care, it is extinguished in the first years, and the heart dies, so to speak, before being born. Here we are, from the first steps, outside of nature.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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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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Alternative Names: Citizen of Geneva • Jean Jacques Rousseau • J. J. Rousseau • Rousseau • J.J. Rousseau • JJ Rousseau

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There as here, passions are the motive of all action, but they are livelier, more ardent, or merely simpler and purer, thereby assuming a totally different character. All the first movements of nature are good and right.

Örneğin çocuk gördüğü bir şeyi istiyorsa ve bu da ona verilebilir bir şeyse, o zaman bu şeyi çocuğa getirmektense çocuğu ona götürmek daha doğru olur: O, bu uygulamadan yaşına göre bir sonuç çıkarır ve bu sonucu ona esinlemenin başka hiçbir yolu yoktur.

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

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