Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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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To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.
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From this it follows that, the larger the State, the less the liberty.
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There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
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Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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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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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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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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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
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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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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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To do is to be.
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