The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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About Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (UK: , US: ; French: [ʒɑ̃ʒak ʁuso]; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosophe, writer, and composer. His political philosophy was influential during the Age of Enlightenment, as well as during the French Revolution.

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The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society. From how many crimes, wars, and murders, from how many horrors and misfortunes might not anyone have saved mankind, by pulling up the stakes, or filling up the ditch, and crying to his fellows, "Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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There is no limit to the power of loving.

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Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

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There is a limit to the amount of misery and disarray you will put up with for love, just as there is a limit to the amount of mess you can stand around a house. You can't know the limit beforehand, but you will know when you've reached it.

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It is necessary, and even vital, to set standards for your life and the people you allow in it.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

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If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

—Jim Morrison

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