I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The world is woman's book. [Fr., Le monde est le livre des femmes.] — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Jewish authors would never have invented either that style nor that morality; and the Gospel has marks of truth so great, so… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“[When under stress I thought of] the books I had read [and applied] them to myself. I [imagined I was] one of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Those who read this will not fail to laugh at my gallantries, and remark, that after very promising preliminaries, my most forward… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“My illusions about the world caused me to think that in order to benefit by my reading I ought to possess all… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“O man, whatever country you may belong to, whatever your opinions may be, attend to my words; you shall hear your history… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I open the books on Right and on ethics; I listen to the professors and jurists; and, my mind full of their… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular to the learned -… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
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