Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Going for a walk to think about it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Never did I think so much, never did I realize my own existence so much, never was I so much alive, so much myself, as in those journeys which I made alone and on foot.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
·1762·Montmorency, France

Nature would have them children before they are men. If we try to invert this order, we shall produce a forced fruit, immature and flavourless, fruit which will be rotten before it is ripe; we shall have young doctors and old children.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act, to make use of our organs, senses, faculties — of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.

Dwight D. Eisenhower — Farewell Address
15:35
Film · NARA

Farewell Address

Dwight D. Eisenhower

January 17, 1961

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences.