“A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded by a multitude of futile concerns would ever raise themselves to anything great. Even when they… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The mind has its needs, just as the body does. The latter are the foundations of society; from the former emerge the pleasures of society. While government and laws take care of the security and the well being of men… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“When innocent and virtuous men liked to have gods as witnesses of their actions, they lived with them in the same huts. But having… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control, constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty. No, it is not possible that minds degraded… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard,… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I know the feelings of my heart, and I know men. I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. Whether Nature has acted rightly or wrongly in destroying the mould… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“Gambling is only the resource of those who do not know what to do with themselves” — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, when more subtle studies and more refined taste have reduced the art of pleasing into principles, a vile and misleading uniformity governs our customs, and all minds seem to have been cast in the same mould: incessantly politeness makes demands, propriety issues orders, and incessantly people follow customary usage, never their own inclinations. One does not dare to appear… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share
“In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only… — Jean Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
