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
- The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
- 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.
- 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.
- How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
- No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
- 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.
- Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
- Base souls have no faith in great individuals.
- Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
- People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Best Quotes
- Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
- We have all loved a guy we know has issues. Despite popular opinions, until we give it a final try, the relationship will always be in the 'what if' stage.
- I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
- Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.
- I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
- Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.
- It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.
- I mean, why am I considered an 'it girl?' Because I'm in a lot of movies right now or am on the covers of magazines? I just hope there is something solid behind that. Because here's the thing with 'it girl' status. It's great and amazing that anybody is saying that at all. But how long does that last?
- When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.
- People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.