Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseauwas a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 June 1712
CityGeneva, Switzerland
CountryFrance
education children teaching
We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.
women tears addresses
The empire of woman is an empire of softness, of address, of complacency. Her commands are caresses, her menaces are tears.
freedom thinking election
The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.
taken character opposites
There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.
real passion heart
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.
simple vanity ego
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
philosophy philosophical people
Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.
motivational trust nature
Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.
heart power follow-your-heart
Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.
hate book people
I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
survivor ifs whole
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
strength strong enough
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
melting delirium ecstasy
I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
peace men thinking
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.