Jean Jacques Rousseau Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Jean Jacques Rousseau quotes, Jean Jacques Rousseau sayings, and Jean Jacques Rousseau proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The less reasonable a cult is, the more men seek to establish it by force. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well. Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful. Jean Jacques Rousseau
Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Smell is the sense of memory and desire. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
To be sane in a world of madman is in itself madness. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He who blushes is already guilty. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame. Jean Jacques Rousseau
When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We do not know either unalloyed happiness or unmitigated misfortune. Everything in this world is a tangled yarn; we taste nothing in its purity; we do not remain two moments in the same state. Our affections as well as bodies, are in a perpetual flux. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Anticipation and Hope are born twins. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
People who know little are usually great talkers while men who know much say little. Jean Jacques Rousseau
You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, paly and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again. Jean Jacques Rousseau
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Do not judge, and you will never be mistaken. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Endurance and to be able to endure is the first lesson a child should learn because it’s the one they will most need to know. Jean Jacques Rousseau
I have entered on an enterprise which is without precedent, and will have no imitator. I propose to show my fellows a man as nature made him, and this man shall be myself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Jean Jacques Rousseau