To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence.
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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He who blushes is already guilty.
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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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The 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.
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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 renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.
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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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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.
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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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The man who meditates is a depraved animal.
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Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
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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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Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves.
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