Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.
Quote by Jean-jacques Rousseau
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Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.
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Jean-jacques Rousseau Quotes
- How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
- Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.
- No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
- No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
- The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
- Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
- Plant and your spouse plants with you weed and you weed alone.
- We are born weak, we need strength helpless, we need aid foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
- Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.
- Nature never deceives us it is we who deceive ourselves.
Best Quotes
- The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper.
- Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
- With the theatre, your whole day is geared towards the evening's show, and that's the job. People usually go to work about 9 and come home around 5, or maybe 7.
- Every morning I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
- To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt.
- We can't blame children for occupying themselves with Facebook rather than playing in the mud. Our society doesn't put a priority on connecting with nature. In fact, too often we tell them it's dirty and dangerous.
- I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
- I had a very wise person tell me that he thinks marriage, when you're younger, you keep thinking you can fix things. That's what people do. And you can't really fix anything. It shouldn't be a massive difficult thing every day. Life's difficult enough.
- The quick success was a bit strange to get used to.