Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The English people think they are free; they are greatly deceived; they are free only during the election of members of Parliament. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think;… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Never did I think so much, exist so much, be myself so much as in the journeys I have made alone and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I bold it impossible, that the great monarchies of Europe can subsist much longer; they all affect magnificence and splendor. — 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
[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I think it impossible that the great monarchies of Europe can last much longer. — 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
![“[When anything happens, we interpret it as good or bad, but...] We do not know what is really good or bad fortune. [Only the future can decide. For example, what appears to be bad today may in fact lead us to a greater good tomorrow and by the very act of thinking and planning in that positive…” quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/483/jean-jacques-rousseau-418_anticipation_when-anything-happens-we-interpret-it-as_1541428.jpg)
