Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop, I cease to think; my mind works only with my legs.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I do not know the art of being clear to those who do not want to be attentive.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It is not possible for minds degraded by a host of trivial concerns to ever rise to anything great.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau