The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAUBut in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.
More Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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My birth was my first misfortune.
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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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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!
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Nature made me happy and good, and if I am otherwise, it is society’s fault.
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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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It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
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The imagination which causes so many ravages among us, never speaks to the heart of savages.
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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. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.
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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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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
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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.
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