Emile Quotes

“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

“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

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

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:books talking hate

“Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need some one to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:learning teaching difficulty

“Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:youth danger

“Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of any folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:experience vanity

“Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's thoughts.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:science teaching

“A feeble body makes a feeble mind.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:mind body

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