The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“To live free and to have little to do with human affairs is the best way of learning how to die.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“It is a great evil for a Chief of a nation to be born the enemy of the freedom whose defender he… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The former breathes only peace and liberty; he desires only to live and be free from labor; even the ataraxia of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“[T]he mere impulse of appetite is slavery, while obedience to a law which we prescribe to ourselves is liberty.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Die Freiheit des Menschen liegt nicht darin, dass er tun kann, was er will, sondern dass er nicht tun muss, was er… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered." (Bk2:8)” — 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
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which… — 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
