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
art philosophical reality
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
children lying men
We cannot teach children the danger of telling lies to men without realising, on the man's part, the danger of telling lies to children. A single untruth on the part of the master will destroy the results of his education.
faith perceive
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
nature children men
Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.
knowledge limits one-thing
The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.
men perfect inspire
Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.
strength strong enough
The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty.
educational stupid men
Plants are shaped by cultivation and men by education. .. We are born weak, we need strength; we are born totally unprovided, we need aid; we are born stupid, we need judgment. Everything we do not have at our birth and which we need when we are grown is given us by education.
greatness men use
Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.
men vanity mad
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.
pain grief suffering
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.
We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.
men doe may
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
insult-to-injury comeback argument
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.