Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes

“Hatred, as well as love, renders its votaries credulous.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions

topic:love hate

“We say Love is blind because his eyes are better than ours, and he perceives relations which we cannot discern.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:love

“The whole difference is that, in the family, the love of the father for his children repays him for the care he takes of them, while, in the State, the pleasure of commanding takes the place of the love which the chief cannot have for the peoples...”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:love government care

“Every man has a right to risk his own life in order to preserve it.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:life risk

“The death-penalty inflicted upon criminals may be looked on in much the same light: it is in order that we may not fall victims to an assassin that we consent to die if we ourselves turn assassins.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:death

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

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:death body

“Every one desires happiness, but to secure it he must know what happiness is.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:happiness

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:knowledge talking ignorance

“Liberty may be gained, but can never be recovered.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:freedom liberty

“Civilised man is born and dies a slave. The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our institutions.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:freedom

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