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 Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once. Jean-Jacques Rousseau natural-talent writing art If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men. Jean-Jacques Rousseau democracy perfect men Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm. Jean-Jacques Rousseau soul fire inspire The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau likes vices secret We are reduced to asking others what we are. We never dare to ask ourselves. Jean-Jacques Rousseau dare identity asking Abstract truth is the eye of reason. Jean-Jacques Rousseau eye truth reason I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau want men way Sacrifice life to truth. Jean-Jacques Rousseau sacrifice truth To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life. Jean-Jacques Rousseau giving men years Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment. Jean-Jacques Rousseau taste-and-judgment microscopes speak Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. Jean-Jacques Rousseau innocence shame guilt I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power? Jean-Jacques Rousseau infinite-power infinite But remain the teacher of the young teachers. Advise and direct us, and we will be ready to learn. I will have need of you as long as I live. Jean-Jacques Rousseau teaching teacher long At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer. Jean-Jacques Rousseau sixteen suffering depression Everything degenerates in the hands of man. Jean-Jacques Rousseau degenerates men hands We lose all that time which we might employ better. Jean-Jacques Rousseau purpose time might Childhood is the sleep of reason. Jean-Jacques Rousseau childhood sleep children The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart. Jean-Jacques Rousseau powerful heart moving The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau eye sight country The visible order of the universe proclaims a supreme intelligence. Jean-Jacques Rousseau visible supreme order
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