Emile Quotes

“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

“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

“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

“freedom, not power, is the greatest good. That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:freedom power

“We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:strength education

“Once you teach people to say what they do not understand, it is easy enough to get them to say anything you like.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:understanding teaching

“What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:wisdom kindness

“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

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