Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for… — 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
“To this motive which encourages me is added another which made up my mind: after I have upheld, according to my natural… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively… — 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
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
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“But if the abberations of foolish youth made me forget suc wise lessons for a time,I have the happiness to sense at… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they. — 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
