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 ROUSSEAUIf there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
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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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I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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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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If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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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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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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