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Quotes from Emile — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

1712–1778 France

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It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Emile (1762)

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

Emile (1762)

Natural man is entirely for himself. He is numerical unity, the absolute whole which is relative only to itself or its kind. Civil man is only a fractional unity dependent on the denominator; his value is determined by his relation to the whole, which is the social body.

Emile (1762)

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