We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them. — 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
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware… — 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
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
