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“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Source: The Social Contract and Discourses
“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau book Confessions
Variant translation: It is too difficult to think nobly when one only thinks to get a living.
Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Books II-VI, II
Source: Confessions
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Source: Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Book I, I
Context: I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself.
“The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1765-1770; published 1782), Book I
Context: I love liberty, and I loathe constraint, dependence, and all their kindred annoyances. As long as my purse contains money it secures my independence, and exempts me from the trouble of seeking other money, a trouble of which I have always had a perfect horror; and the dread of seeing the end of my independence, makes me proportionately unwilling to part with my money. The money that we possess is the instrument of liberty, that which we lack and strive to obtain is the instrument of slavery.
“All my misfortunes come of having thought too well of my fellows.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher
Source: Emile or On Education
“To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness.”
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher