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
Jean-Jacques Rousseau quotes about
goodness
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
criminal hardest ridiculous
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
incentive money
Refiners had every incentive to get back up because there was a lot of money to be made.
american-journalist commitment faithful performance promise slow
He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.
available coming excess supply
If you take a look at the supply-demand fundamentals in the world, there's not a lot of excess supply available or much coming on line.
evils others ourselves pity
We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced
children force man men natural order requires wise
With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
majority-rule political minorities
It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
innocence ashamed
Innocence is ashamed of nothing.
misfortunes
Our greatest misfortunes come to us from ourselves.
heart illumination soul
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.
pain grief suffering
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.
insult-to-injury comeback argument
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
laughter teaching heart
Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?