Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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Whoever refuses to obey the general will will be forced to do so by the entire body; this means merely that he will be forced to be free.
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As a general rule-never substitute the symbol for the thing signified, unless it is impossible to show the thing itself; for the child's attention is so taken up with the symbol that he will forget what it signifies.
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We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
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It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.
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The passions are the voice of the body.
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The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
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The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
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There is a period of life when we go back as we advance. [Fr., Il est un terme de la vie au-dela duquel en retrograde en avancant.]
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.
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i am do big fard
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Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.
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Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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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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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
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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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A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity.
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I may not amount to much, but at least I am unique.
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Trust your heart rather than your head.
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At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.
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Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question.
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Even knaves may be made good for something.
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Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.