Trust your heart rather than your head.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUMAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
-
-
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 -
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Happiness requires three things, a good bank account, a good cook, and good digestion.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
What good is it looking for our happiness in the opinion of others if we can find it in ourselves?
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
What, then, is the government? An intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign for their mutual communication, a body charged with the execution of the laws and the maintenance of freedom, both civil and political.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU -
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.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU