Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes


"He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Performance, Promise)

"I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I 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."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Nature, Man, Want, Will)

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Books, Hate, Talk)

"Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Bank account)

"God made me and broke the mold."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: God)

"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
(Related: Life, Being, Existence, Man)

"I may be no better, but at least I am different."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: May)

"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
(Related: Education, Time)

"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Man)

"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
(Related: Life, Fire, Man, Order, Right, Risk, Suicide)

"I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: People, May)

"I only see clearly what I remember."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"I 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."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Project)

"Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Blushes, Innocence, Nothing)

"It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Man)

"No man has any natural authority over his fellow men."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Men, Authority, Man)

"No 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."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Death, Law)

"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
(Related: Age, Love, Pleasure, Regret)

"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
(Related: Being, Man, May, Paradoxes)

"Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Religious)

"Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: War, Virtue, State)

"Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong."
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
(Related: Arguments, Insults, Wrong)