Conscience! conscience! divine instinct, immortal and heavenly voice.Emile, Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar
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All quotationsThe Enlightenment
Quotations: The Enlightenment
The 9 quotations from the philosophers tied to this movement, each linked to the position it expresses.
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Everything is good as it leaves the hands of the Author of things; everything degenerates in the hands of man.Emile, book I
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.The Social Contract (1762), I, 1
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Our souls have grown corrupt in proportion as our sciences and arts have advanced toward perfection.Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (1750)
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That no citizen be rich enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.The Social Contract, II, 11
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The impulse of mere appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.The Social Contract, I, 8
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The instant a people gives itself representatives, it is no longer free; it no longer exists.The Social Contract, III, 15
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To find a form of association by which each, uniting with all, still obeys only himself and remains as free as before.The Social Contract, I, 6
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Woe to him who has nothing left to desire! He loses, as it were, all that he possesses.Julie, or the New Heloise, VI
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