Affections Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Download Open image “Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.” — Jean-Jacques Rousseau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Affections Affections Bodies Bodies Perpetual Flux Love Perpetual Perpetual Flux
Our affections are our life. We live by them; they supply our warmth. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the heart — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is a law of nature that we defend ourselves from one affection only by means of another. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
We are not commanded (or forbidden) to love our mates, our children, our friends, our country because such affections come natural ... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When a tender affection has been storing itself in us through many of our years, the idea that we could accept any exchange for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“This feeling of warm personal attachment and deep affection is what connects, unifies, and binds our humanity.” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
It's true that nothing in this world makes us so necessary to others as the affection we have for them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. - Washington Irving — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion. — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Virginians were no more angels or philanthropists than people to the north or to the south of them. They were moved by their affections,… — John Sergeant Wise Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
“Minimizing the importance of transformed feelings makes Christian conversion less supernatural and less radical. It is humanly manageable to make decisions of the will… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I've always been a person that's totally comfortable with my sexuality and showing my affections with my guy friends. At the end of the… — Brody Jenner Copy Share Image
“As women, we are always taught never to let a man know of our affections towards him, lest he laugh, run away, or think… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
