Quotes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

We cannot teach children the danger of lying to men without feeling as men, the greater danger of lying to children.

A taste for ostentation is rarely associated in the same souls with a taste for honesty

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

God made me and broke the mold.

If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane.

If Socrates died like a philosopher, Jesus Christ died like a God.

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Government originated in the attempt to find a form of association that defends and protects the person and property of each with the common force of all.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content.

Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

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

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

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

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

Money is the seed of money.

Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.