The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUThe 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.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.
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If we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
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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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To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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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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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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