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.
evils others ourselves pity
We pity in others only those evils which we have ourselves experienced
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.
insult-to-injury comeback argument
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
innocence guilty ashamed
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.
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..
listening earth fruit
Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.
democracies-have democracy existence
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
reputation posterity
Posterity is always just.
kings philosophy thinking
He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.