I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other.

JeanJacques Rousseau
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More Quotes By JeanJacques Rousseau
  1. Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.

  2. Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.

  3. It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

  4. To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he...

  5. Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man

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