Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We all have thoughts and feelings that we believe are fundamental to our lives but that are better left unspoken.
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Tell the truth.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.
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Altruism raises your mood because it raises your self-esteem, which increases happiness. Plus, giving to others gets you outside of yourself and distracts you from your problems.
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It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
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I was told that when I'm dancing, I give off the feeling of a rainy day.
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The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
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Even the best scientists are often insecure and feel the need for recognition.
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Leadership means that a group, large or small, is willing to entrust authority to a person who has shown judgement, wisdom, personal appeal, and proven competence.
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Hendrix was the first person I had come across who seemed completely free, and when you're nine or 10, your life is entirely dominated by adults. So he represented this thing that I wanted to be. Hendrix was the first person who made me think it might be good to be a singer and a guitarist - before that I wanted to be a footballer.
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Food can change anything.
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Who was the first man to look at a house full of objects and to immediately assess them only in terms of what he could trade them in for in the market likely to have been? Surely he can only have been a thief.
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Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
