Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes
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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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It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command.
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That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it.
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Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.
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I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.
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Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself
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A citizen should render to the state all the services he can as soon as the sovereign demands them.
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We do not know what really good or bad fortune is.
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One can buy anything with money except morality.
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A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
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Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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God is intelligent; but in what manner? Man is intelligent by the act of reasoning, but the supreme intelligence lies under no necessity to reason. He requires neither premise nor consequences; nor even the simple form of a proposition. His knowledge is purely intuitive. He beholds equally what is and what will be. All truths are to Him as one idea, as all places are but one point, and all times one moment.
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There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.
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He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
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If I am part of a group of 100 people, do 99 people have the right to sentence me to death, just because they are majority?
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Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.
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Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.
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Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
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Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
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The truth brings no man a fortune.
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Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.