“I believed in childhood by authority, in youth by sentiment, in my mature years by reason; now I believe because I have… — 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
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which… — 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
Childhood is the sleep of reason. [Fr., L'enfance est le sommeil de la raison.] — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We can never put ourselves in the shoes of children; we cannot fathom their thoughts, we lend them ours; and always following… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on… — 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
