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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and The First and Second Discourses
Tagged: Gratitude, Expectation, Duty
“What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tagged: Universe, kindness, Goodness, Survivor
“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses
Tagged: Happiness, Opinions, heart
“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract and Discourses
Tagged: Freedom, Liberty, Master, Consent, Slave
“She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tagged: Love, Mystery, romance, unattractive
“It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
Tagged: heart, Brain, Change, Feelings
“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile: Or On Education
Tagged: Teach, Knowledge, Persuasion
“The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.'”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile: Or On Education
Tagged: Moral Lesson, Advice, Growing Up, Life
“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.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Reveries of the Solitary Walker
Tagged: Freedom, Will, Human Power, Compulsion, Liberty
“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tagged: Virtue, War, Battle
“I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.”
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
Tagged: different, Personality, Nature
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