To live is not to breathe; it is to act. Jean-Jacques Rousseau View this quote
Our greatest evils flow from ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our sweetest existence is relative and collective and our true self is not entirely in us. Such is man’s constitution in this life that he never succeeds in truly enjoying himself without the help of other people. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People in their natural state are basically good. But this natural innocence, however, is corrupted by the evils of society. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Smell is the sense of memory and desire. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Social man lives always outside himself; he knows how to live only in the opinion of others, it is, so to speak, from their judgement alone that he derives the sense of his own existence. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Teach by doing whenever you can, and only fall back upon words when doing it is out of the question. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Genevan philosopher
June 28th, 1712 - July 2nd, 1778
