Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUOne does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.
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I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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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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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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Every artists wants to be applauded
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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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I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
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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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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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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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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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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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I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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