Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Biography : Genevan philosopher, writer and composer.
Born: 1712 - Died: 1778
Period:
18th century
Place of birth: Switzerland

Switzerland

Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Quotes

Where all is well, there is no such thing as injustice. Justice and goodness are inseparable.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

To make another happy, is to deserve to be happy one's self.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Lettre à M. Hume /

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Obedience to the law one has prescribed for oneself is freedom.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right /

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

There is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without struggle.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

There is no happiness without courage, nor virtue without struggle.

Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau /

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Confidence raises the soul.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

There is only one science to teach to children. It is that of man's duties.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Of the Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right /

We should be ashamed of making a mistake, not of repairing it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

Peoples once accustomed to masters are not in a condition to do without them.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men /

The kind of happiness I want consists, not so much in doing what I wish, as in not doing what I don't wish.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau /

The only way to avoid error is ignorance.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

Conscience is the voice of the soul; the passions are the voice of the body.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

I venture to declare that a state of reflection is a state contrary to nature, and that a thinking man is a depraved animal.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men /

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

May I venture at this point to state the greatest, the most important, the most useful rule of education? It is: do not save time, but lose it.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile, or On Education /

Which was the most necessary, society already formed to invent languages, or languages already invented to form society?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men

The knowledge of death, and of its terrors, is one of the first acquisitions made by man, in consequence of his deviating from the animal state.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality Among Men