Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Let the trumpet of the day of judgment sound when it will, I shall appear with this book in my hand before the Sovereign Judge, and cry with a loud voice, This is my work, there were my thoughts, and thus was I. I have freely told both the good and the bad, have hid nothing wicked, added nothing good.
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Temperance and labor are the two best physicians of man; labor sharpens the appetite, and temperance prevents from indulging to excess
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I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.
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All kinds of frankness and honesty are terrible crimes in the eyes of society.
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The members of a body-politic call it "the state" when it is passive, "the sovereign" when it is active, and a "power" when they compare it with others of its kind. Collectively they use the title "people," and they refer to one another individually as "citizens" when speaking of their participation in the authority of the sovereign, and as "subjects" when speaking of their subordination to the laws of the state.
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The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.
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At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.
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i am do big fard
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.
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God made me and broke the mold.
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Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.
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Finance is a slave's word.
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Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.
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A man says what he knows, a woman says what will please.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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I don't know what is truth,but I can tell you how to find it!
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Everything made by man may be destroyed by man; there are no ineffaceable characters except those engraved by nature; and nature makes neither princes nor rich men nor great lords.
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Too much apparatus, designed to guide us in experiments and to supplement the exactness of our senses, makes us neglect to use those senses...The more ingenious our apparatus, the coarser and more unskillful are our senses. We surround ourselves with tools and fail to use those which nature has provided every one of us.
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Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.