I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUTo do is to be.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
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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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Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!
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What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
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He who blushes is already guilty.
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Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
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I may be no better, but at least I am different.
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However great a man’s natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
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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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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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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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