Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes (175 Quotes)

The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.

I only see clearly what I remember.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.

Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

All that time is lost which might be better employed

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles.

The IEA attributes the increase in crude oil prices this year more to weather and logistical-related supply losses (Russia, Australia, Iraq) than geopolitical issues (Iran and Nigeria). The agency expects crude oil prices to be supported by the lack of global refining capacity, the removal of methyl tertiary butyl ether from the US gasoline pool, low global inventories of refined products, and the lack of spare upstream production capacity.

An honest man nearly always thinks justly.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken.

Little privations are easily endured when the heart is better treated than the body

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.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

The English people believes itself to be free it is gravely mistaken it is free only during election of members of parliament as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English people makes such a use of that freedom that it deserves to lose it.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.

He who is most slow in making a promise is the most faithful in performance of it.

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?

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

General and abstract ideas are the source of the greatest errors of mankind.

Living is not breathing but doing.

As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me' the State may be given up for lost

War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders

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.

Accent is the soul of language it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

Universal silence must be taken to imply the consent of the people.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Chevron is still in a situation of blending in the Unocal assets and there's the matter of how it's all going to line up in terms of long-term production growth targets.

Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

In Genoa, the word, libertas can be read on the front of prisons and on the fetters of galley-slaves. The application of this motto is fine and just.

Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited.

At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, 'Let them eat cake'.

Conscience is the voice of the soul the passions of the body.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely know that other being also suffer seeing without feeling is not knowledge