However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence,however, is corrupted by the evils of society. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“...an animal, at the end of a few months, is what it will be all its life; and its species, at the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“We are born sensitive and from our birth onwards we are affected in various ways by our environment. As soon as we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“He who would preserve the supremacy of natural feelings in social life knows not what he asks. Ever at war with himself,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying This is mine , and found people simple… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“God (Nature, in my view) makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. He fores one soil to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Such is the pure movement of nature prior to all reflection. Such is the force of natural pity, which the most depraved… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“others, without further ceremony ascribing to the strongest an authority over the weakest, have immediately struck out government, without thinking of the… — 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
“The extreme inequality of our ways of life, the excess of idleness among some and the excess of toil among others, the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The earth left to its own natural fertility and covered with immense woods, that no hatchet ever disfigured, offers at every step… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“ The spectacle of nature, by growing quite familiar to him, becomes at last equally indifferent. It is constantly the same order,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The earth would be covered with men amongst whom there world would be almost no communication; we would make contact at some… — 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
![“Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]” quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d70/jean-jacques-rousseau-418_auras_every-blue-stocking-will-remain-a-spinst_1681727.jpg)
