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“ ”The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning. They are always looking for the man in the child, without considering what he is before he becomes a man.
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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The wisest writers devote themselves to what a man ought to know, without asking what a child is capable of learning.
Additional quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A misfortune never makes me uneasy provided I know in what it consists; but it is my nature to be afraid of darkness, I tremble at the appearance of it.
The sight of the most hideous monster would, I am of opinion, alarm me but little; but if by night I were to see a figure in a white sheet I should be afraid of it.
ويلوح أن الواقع يقضي بأنني إذا كنتُ مُلزمًا بألَّا أصنع أي سوء لمثيلي؛ فذلك لأنه كائنٌ ذو إحساسٍ أكثر من أن يكون ذا عقل، وبما أن صفة الإحساس مشترَكةٌ بين الحيوان والإنسان، فإن من الواجب أن تمنح أحدهما، على الأقل، حقَّ عدم معاملته سوءًا من قِبَل الآخَر على غير جدوى.
Princes always are always happy to see developing among their subjects the taste for agreeable arts and for superfluities which do not result in the export of money. For quite apart from the fact that with these they nourish that spiritual pettiness so appropriate for servitude, they know very well that all the needs which people give themselves are so many chains binding them. When Alexander wished to keep the Ichthyophagi dependent on him, he forced them to abandon fishing and to nourish themselves on foods common to other people. And no one has been able to subjugate the savages in America, who go around quite naked and live only from what their hunting provides. In fact, what yoke could be imposed on men who have no need of anything?