It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and… — 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
Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent… — 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
Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body. — 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
Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth. — 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
