“Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Inspirational Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Bank account Copy Share Image
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles. — Jean Jacques Rousseau Born free Copy Share Image
“Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Gambling Copy Share Image
“What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Happiness Copy Share Image
“Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Copy Share Image
“I don't know how this lively and dumb scene would have ended , or how long I might have remained immoveable in… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Beauty Copy Share Image
“When innocent and virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions, they lived with them in the same huts.… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Temples Copy Share Image
“Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Culture Copy Share Image
“I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen;… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Feelings Copy Share Image
“All ran to meet their chains thinking they secured their freedom, for although they had enough reason to feel the advantages of… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Freedom Copy Share Image
“I will simply ask: What is philosophy? What do the writings of the best known philosophers contain? What are the lessons of… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Philosophers Copy Share Image
“But so long as power remains by itself on one side, and enlightenment and wisdom isolated on the other, wise men will… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Buddhism Copy Share Image
“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Democracy Copy Share Image
“A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Courage Copy Share Image
“The mind has its needs, just as the body does. The latter are the foundations of society; from the former emerge the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Politics Copy Share Image
“It is a great and beautiful spectacle to see a man somehow emerging from oblivion by his own efforts, dispelling with the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Nature Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, when more subtle studies and more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing into principles, a vile and misleading uniformity… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Art Copy Share Image
“In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself,… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Nature of man Copy Share Image
“In fact, the real source of all thosedifferences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas thecitizen, constantly beside himself, knows only… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Nature of man Copy Share Image
“I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up,… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Animals Copy Share Image
