Men Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The man who meditates is a depraved animal.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Social man lives constantly outside himself.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Behold the works of our philosophers; with all their pompous diction, how mean and contemptible they are by comparison with the Scriptures!…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Ruthless man: you begin by slaying the animal and then you devour it, as if to slay it twice. It is not…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Everything degenerates in the hands of man.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The truth brings no man a fortune.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau