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
men forgiving prejudice
Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
education educational important
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.
philosophical hero long
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
love philosophical romance
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux.
children philosophical adversity
To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.
happiness heart men
The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.
patience sweet fruit
Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
long people world
As long as there are rich people in the world, they will be desirous of distinguishing themselves from the poor.
men vanity mad
Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity.
luxury riches poor
Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.
people soul world
But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people...
dog names
He certainly deserved the name better than those who had assumed it.
men good-man pay
Truth is an homage that the good man pays to his own dignity.
country war men
War then, is a relation - not between man and man but between state and state and individuals are enemies only accidentally not as men, nor even as citizens but as soldiers not as members of their country, but as its defenders