“In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I am not worried about pleasing clever minds or fashionable people. In every period there will be men fated to be governed… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“If there is a state where the soul can find a resting-place secure enough to establish itself and concentrate its entire being… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“...there is no real advance in human reason, for what we gain in one direction we lose in another; for all minds… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Hold childhood in reverence, and do not be in any hurry to judge it for good or ill. Leave exceptional cases to… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One loses all the time which he might employ to better purpose. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Watch a cat when it enters a room for the first time. It searches and smells about, it is not quiet for… — 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
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could… — 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
[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
The science of government is only a science of combinations, of applications, and of exceptions, according to times, places and circumstances. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“others, without further ceremony ascribing to the strongest an authority over the weakest, have immediately struck out government, without thinking of the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and… — 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
