"For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking… - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"For if men needed speech in order to learn to think, they had a still greater need for knowing how to think in order to discover the art of speaking" - Rousseau

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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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Alternative Names: Citizen of Geneva Jean Jacques Rousseau J. J. Rousseau Rousseau J.J. Rousseau JJ Rousseau
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

it is to this ardor for making oneself the topic of conversation, to this furor to distinguish oneself which nearly always keeps us outside ourselves, that we owe what is best and worst among men, our virtues and vices, our sciences and our errors, our conquerors and our philosophers, that is to say, a multitude of bad things against a small number of good ones.

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Her şeyin güçlük, görev ve zorunluluk olduğu toplum yaşamına hiçbir zaman elverişli olmadığım ve boyun eğmez huyum dolayısıyla insanlarla yaşamak isteyenlerin kabul etmek zorunda kaldıkları yükümlülüklere katlanamadığımdır. Özgür davrandıkça, iyi bir insanım ve yalnızca iyilik ederim; ama gerek zorunluğun gerek insanların boyunduruğunu duar duymaz huylanır, başkaldırırım; o zaman hiç bir işe yaramam. İsteğimce davranamazsam, ne olursa olsun gitmem; ama, zarif bir adam olduğum için o isteğimi de yerine getirmem. İnsan için özgürlüğün, istediğini yapmaktan çok istemediğini yapmamak olduğuna her zaman inanmışımdır.

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