Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Philosopher
Nation: French
Biography of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.
Tags: Children, Time, TrainingIt is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.
Tags: Difficult, Living, ThinksVirtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.
Tags: Ourselves, State, WarThe 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.
Tags: Body, Die, HumanHeroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Tags: Cowards, Greatest, KnownRemorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
Tags: Adversity, Bitter, ProsperityWhen something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
Tags: Defeat, Either, HappensMost nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
Tags: Become, Impossible, YouthHowever great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Tags: Great, May, WritingIt is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
Tags: Action, Rule, UnitedO 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.
Tags: Age, Love, RegretOur will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
Tags: GoodDo 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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Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Tags: Difficult, Money, SometimesTake the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.
Tags: Almost, Custom, OppositeThe English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
Tags: Election, English, FreeWe should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
Tags: Children, Give, TeachForce does not constitute right... obedience is due only to legitimate powers.
Tags: Force, Legitimate, ObedienceOur affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
Tags: Affections, Bodies, PerpetualTake from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Tags: Desire, Knowledge, PleasureTo endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
Tags: Child, Endure, LearnWe are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
Tags: Human, Life, SpeakWe pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.
Tags: Others, Ourselves, PityOrdinary 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.
Tags: Forgive, May, WhateverNo true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
Tags: Death, Law, TrueI undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Tags: Aim, Others, WriteReading, 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.
Tags: Him, Life, WomenI have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.
Tags: Human, Nature, TrueThe 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.
Tags: Innocent, Reason, StepFree people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.
Tags: Lost, May, RememberPeople who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Tags: Brainy, Great, MenI may be no better, but at least I am different.
Tags: MayWe 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.
Tags: Education, Reason, StrengthEvery 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?
Tags: Fire, Life, SaidThe world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Tags: Boundless, Limits, RealityThe person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Tags: Lived, RichestFalsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Tags: Falsehood, Infinity, TruthI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
Tags: Books, Hate, TalkWhoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
Tags: Guilty, Innocence, TrueYou forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.
Tags: Belong, Forget, LandIt is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.
Tags: Exist, Exists, ExplainGratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.
Tags: Duty, Expect, GratitudeAlthough modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Tags: Children, Evil, Knowledge