Choose language

Forgot your password?

Need a Spoofbox account? Create one for FREE!

No subscription or hidden extras

Login

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Read through the most famous quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau




I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#faith #god #humanity #faith

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#mankind #equality

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#freedom

El hombre ha nacido libre y en todas partes se halla encadenado.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#political-philosophy #freedom

Die Freiheit des Menschen liegt nicht darin, dass er tun kann, was er will, sondern dass er nicht tun muss, was er nicht will.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#will #freedom

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#government #politics #men

Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#education

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#error #life #past #virtue #life

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#emile #education

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.


— Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#cannot #great #however #learned #man






About Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes




Did you know about Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

Moreover Rousseau advocated the opinion that insofar as they lead people to virtue all religions are equally worthy and that people should therefore conform to the religion in which they have been brought up. Following the French Revolution other commentators fingered a potential danger of Rousseau’s project of realizing an “antique” conception of virtue amongst the citizenry in a modern world (e. Although in this state he deprives himself of some advantages which he got from nature he gains in return others so great his faculties are so stimulated and developed his ideas so extended his feelings so ennobled and his whole soul so uplifted that did not the abuses of this new condition often degrade him below that which he left he would be bound to bless continually the happy moment which took him from it for ever and instead of a stupid and unimaginative animal made him an intelligent being and a man.

Rousseau's novel Émile: or On Education is a treatise on the education of the whole person for citizenship. His sentimental novel Julie or the New Heloise was of importance to the development of pre-romanticism and romanticism in fiction. Rousseau's autobiographical writings—his Confessions which initiated the modern autobiography and his Reveries of a Solitary Walker—exemplified the late 18th-century movement known as the Age of Sensibility and featured an increased focus on subjectivity and introspection that later characterized modern writing.

back to top