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Biography - Jean-Jacques Rousseau:

Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.
Born: 1712 - Died: 1778
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Switzerland
Switzerland

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education


Note 

Note




Quote source: Emile, or On Education

Wikisource - Œuvres complètes de Jean-Jacques Rousseau (fr) 



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
C'est dans le cœur de l'homme qu'est la vie du spectacle de la nature ; pour le voir il faut le sentir.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Émile, ou De l'éducation

German
Im Herzen des erfahrenen Mannes liegt das Leben dieses Naturschauspiels; um es recht zu sehen, muss man es empfinden können.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile oder über die Erziehung



See also 

See also...



Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

There are unknown forces in nature when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.
Auguste Rodin

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We admire the world through what we love.
Alphonse de Lamartine - Jocelyn

Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature

Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
Fernando Pessoa

Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.
Vincent Willem van Gogh - Letters to Theo

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



Quotes for: life


Quotes

Quotes about life:


As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy / 





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Seneca - De Vita Beata / 





There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Gandhi / 





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.
Blanche Pierson / 





Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Henry David Thoreau / 






All about life...




Quotes for: heart


Quotes

Quotes about heart:


Hope stole into my heart against my will.
Jean Racine - Phèdre / 





The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





The long sobs
Of the violins
Of autumn
Hurt my heart
With a monotonous
Languor
Paul Verlaine / 





Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde / 





With most people the heart grows old with the body.
Guy de Maupassant / 






All about heart...




Quotes for: nature


Quotes

Quotes about nature:


Universal Nature has made reasonable creatures for the sake of one another.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 





Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.
Albrecht Dürer - Four Books of Human Proportion / 





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon / 





Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires / 





Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
Jeremy Bentham - Principles of Morals and Legislation / 






All about nature...




Quotes for: Man


Quotes

Quotes about man, all human beings:


Man is the future of man.
Francis Ponge / 





No man is weak by choice.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 





Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées / 





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.
Albert Camus - Chroniques / 





Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal - Pensées / 





I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 






All about man, all human beings...




Quotes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau also said...


Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 





To make another happy, is to deserve to be happy one's self.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Lettre à M. Hume / 





Obedience to the law one has prescribed for oneself is freedom.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right / 





There is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without struggle.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 





Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau / 





Confidence raises the soul.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education / 







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