Jean Jacques Rousseau Quotes

“Men always love what is good or what they find good; it is in judging what is good that they go wrong.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:good judgement wrong

“The passage from the state of nature to the civil state produces a very remarkable change in man, by substituting justice for instinct in his conduct, and giving his actions the morality they had formerly lacked.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:nature justice morality

“There are two kinds of dependence: dependence on things, which is the work of nature; and dependence on men, which is the work of society.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:nature society

“A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:education

“to control the child one must often control oneself.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:education children

“Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:government democracy

“It is solely on the basis of this common interest that every society should be governed.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:government interest

“Society is so general and so mixed there is no place left for retirement, and even in the home we live in public.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:society

“Society must be studied in the individual and the individual in society; those who desire to treat politics and morals apart from one another will never understand either.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:society politics

“All that destroys social unity is worthless; all institutions that set man in contradiction to himself are worthless.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

topic:society

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