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“Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.”
― Emile, or On Education
― Emile, or On Education
“When one has suffered or fears suffering, one pities those who suffer; but when one is suffering, one pities only oneself.”
― Emile, or On Education
― Emile, or On Education
“My passions, when roused, are intense, and, so long as I am activated by them, nothing equals my impetuosity. I no longer know moderation, respect, fear, propriety; I am cynical, brazen, violent, fearless; no sense of shame deters me, no danger alarms me. Except for the object of my passion, the whole world is as nothing to me; but this only lasts for a moment, and the next I am plunged into utter dejection.”
― Confessions
― Confessions
“Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society's fault.”
― Emile, or On Education
― Emile, or On Education
“Entirely taken up by the present, I could remember nothing; I had no distinct notion of myself as a person, nor had I the least idea of what had just happened to me. I did not know who I was, nor where I was; I felt neither pain, fear, nor anxiety. I watched my blood flowing as I might have watched a stream, without even thinking that the blood had anything to do with me. I felt throughout my whole being such a wonderful calm, that whenever I recall this feeling I can find nothing to compare with it in all the pleasures that stir our lives.”
― Reveries of the Solitary Walker
― Reveries of the Solitary Walker
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