Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseauwas a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the overall development of modern political and educational thought...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth28 June 1712
CityGeneva, Switzerland
CountryFrance
guilt innocence shame
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.
laughter law social-contract
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
honesty thinking men
An honest man nearly always thinks justly.
educational book practice
I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.
real men two
Temperance and labor are the two real physicians of man.
men birth speak
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.
love i-miss-you missing-you
Days of absence, sad and dreary, Clothed in sorrow's dark array, - Days of absence, I am weary; She I love is far away. Poetic Verse by
jesus pain wish-to-die
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies in pain, dishonor, mockery, the object of universal cursing - the most horrible death that one could fear. At the receipt of the cup of poison, Socrates blesses him who could not give it to him without tears; Jesus, while suffering the sharpest pains, prays for His most bitter enemies. If Socrates lived and died like a philosopher, Jesus lived and died like a god.
heart men existence
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
teacher teaching long
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.
teaching men needs
All through life a man has need of a counsellor and guide.
remember
I only see clearly what I remember.
fire inspire soul
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.
country eye sight
The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.