The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
-
-
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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
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..
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
I may be no better, but at least I am different.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU