Soul Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

17 Soul quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Rousseau’s musings on the soul reveal his deep belief in innate goodness and emotional depth. These seventeen snippets capture his blend of philosophical reflection and heartfelt feeling, giving a taste of his Romantic spirit.

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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

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Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions of the body.

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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

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Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

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The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

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The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never…

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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often…

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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from…

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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

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Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent…

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Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the…

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As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the…

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If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield…

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It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and…

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Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the…

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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two…

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It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion,…

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Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

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Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given to us by education.

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The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple…

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...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.

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Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.

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“O Fabricius! What would your great soul have thought, if to your own misfortune you had been called back to life and had seen…

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“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions…

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Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I…

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