The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us… — 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
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The strength of the people is effective only if it is concentrated; it evaporates and is lost when it is dispersed, just… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Equality is deemed by many a mere speculative chimera, which can never be reduced to practice. But if the abuse is inevitable,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a wise man, the life and death of Jesus are those… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If all were perfect Christians, individuals would do their duty; the people would be obedient to the laws, the magistrates incorrupt, and… — 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
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield… — 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
