Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes | GloryQuotes

Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Life

We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Children

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

More Quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

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.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Force does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Browse 73 quotes attributed to Jean Jacques Rousseau, listed in the source data as a Swiss Philosopher, organized around themes such as Life, Children, Book. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.