“So long as one remains in the same condition, the inclinations which result from habit and are the least natural to us… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“We are born sensitive and from our birth onwards we are affected in various ways by our environment. As soon as we… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
For it is in our nature to endure patiently the decrees of fate, but not the ill-will of others. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to… — 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
“God (Nature, in my view) makes all things good; man meddles with them and they become evil. He fores one soil to… — 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
It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion,… — 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
“The earth would be covered with men amongst whom there world would be almost no communication; we would make contact at some… — 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 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
“Political writers argue in regard to the love of liberty with the same philosophy that philosophers do in regard to the state… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music; but I had also received from nature that acute sensibility against… — 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
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow,… — 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
I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime,… — 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
