Do you not know...that a child badly taught is farther from being wise than one not taught at all? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“The ever-recurring law of necessity soon teaches a man to do what he does not like, so as to avert evils which… — 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
“But if the abberations of foolish youth made me forget suc wise lessons for a time,I have the happiness to sense at… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Since nothing is less stable among men than those external relationships which chance brings about more often than wisdom, and which are… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“All our wisdom consists in servile prejudices. All our practices are only subjection, impediment, and constraint. Civil man is born, lives, and… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“I open the books on Right and on ethics; I listen to the professors and jurists; and, my mind full of their… — 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
