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
solitude occupation want
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
men want way
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.
desire may want
Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.
artist want
Every artists wants to be applauded
lying want facts
The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.
men doe want
I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.
experience lived richest
The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences
cannot great however learned natural
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
goodness
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.
adversity either
When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.
bad fortune good
We do not know what is really good or bad fortune
nations people
Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.
incentive money
Refiners had every incentive to get back up because there was a lot of money to be made.
criminal hardest ridiculous
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.