It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me. Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau More Quotes From Jean-Jacques Rousseau Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists. Jean-Jacques Rousseau be-good evil heart Equality, because without it there can be no liberty. Jean-Jacques Rousseau liberty Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited. Jean-Jacques Rousseau exceed unlimited rights I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described. Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophical swag said If there wasn't a God we would have to invent one to keep people sane. Jean-Jacques Rousseau sane god people It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau nature heart life The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin. Jean-Jacques Rousseau ruins ease children The indifference of children towards meat is one proof that the taste for meat is unnatural; their preference is for vegetable foods...Beware of changing this natural taste and making children flesh-eaters, if not for their health's sake, for the sake of their character; for how can one explain away the fact that great meat-eaters are usually fiercer and more cruel than other men; this has been recognised at all times and in all places. Jean-Jacques Rousseau character men children How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? Jean-Jacques Rousseau philosophical hero long Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth. Jean-Jacques Rousseau women blue long Base souls have no faith in great individuals. Jean-Jacques Rousseau individual soul faith At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us. Jean-Jacques Rousseau air spring men The political body, therefore, is also a moral being which has a will; and this general will, which tends always to the conservation and well-being of the whole and of each part of it ... is, for all members of the state ... the rule of what is just or unjust. Jean-Jacques Rousseau unjust political body And when the relics of humanity left among the Spaniards induced them to forbid their lawyers to set foot in America, what must they have thought of jurisprudence? May it not be said that they thought, by this single expedient, to make reparation for all the outrages they had committed against the unhappy Indians? Jean-Jacques Rousseau humanity feet america To live is not breathing it is action. Jean-Jacques Rousseau breathing action life He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by. Jean-Jacques Rousseau eye littles pay I loved too sincerely, too completely, I venture to say, to be able to be happy easily. Jean-Jacques Rousseau sincerely venture able The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights. Jean-Jacques Rousseau citizens kind rights At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed. Jean-Jacques Rousseau perfect men country Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau vanity mad men
