At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This… — 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
The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's innermost being and concerns itself no less with his will than… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. — 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
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties. For he who… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two… — 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
War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
War is then not a relationship between one man and another, but a relationship between one State and another, in which individuals… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men. — 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
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and… — 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
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way. — 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
