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
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
wise plato law
Let it not, therefore, be said that the Sovereign is not subject to the laws of his State; since the contrary is a true proposition of the right of nations, which flattery has sometimes attacked but good princes have always defended as the tutelary divinity of their dominions. How much more legitimate is it to say with the wise Plato, that the perfect felicity of a kingdom consists in the obedience of subjects to their prince, and of the prince to the laws, and in the laws being just and constantly directed to the public good!
kings philosophy thinking
He thinks like a philosopher, but governs like a king.
philosophy light doubt
I also realized that the philosophers, far from ridding me of my vain doubts, only multiplied the doubts that tormented me and failed to remove any one of them. So I chose another guide and said, Let me follow the Inner Light; it will not lead me so far astray as others have done, or if it does it will be my own fault, and I shall not go so far wrong if I follow my own illusions as if I trusted to their deceits.
education book buffon
There exists one book, which, to my taste, furnishes the happiest treatise of natural education. What then is this marvelous book? Is it Aristotle? Is it Pliny, is it Buffon? No-it is Robinson Crusoe.