From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUNature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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To do is to be.
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My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
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In respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.
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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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Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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Being wealthy isn’t just a question of having lots of money. It’s a question of what we want. Wealth isn’t an absolute, it’s relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can’t afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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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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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament. As soon as they are elected, slavery overtakes it, and it is nothing.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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