The first man, who, after enclosing a piece of ground, took it into his head to say, This is mine, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the true founder of civil society.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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It is pity in which the state of nature takes the place of laws, morals and virtues, with the added advantage that no one there is tempted to disobey its gentle voice.
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We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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To do is to be.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
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I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
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Girls should learn that so much finery is only put on to hide defects, and that the triumph of beauty is to shine by itself.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.
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The sociable man, always outside himself, is capable of living only in the opinions of others and, so to speak, derives the sentiment of his own existence solely from their judgment.
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To renounce freedom is to renounce one’s humanity, one’s rights as a man and equally one’s duties.
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