Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, and charged with… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power"… — 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
The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Ought to have a universal compulsory force to move and arrange each part in the manner best suited to the whole. Just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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 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 Image
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
...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 Image
Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
