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
If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it! — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The money you have gives you freedom; the money you pursue enslaves you. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius. — 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