People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: wisdom
What wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: wisdom-kindness
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: freedom
The truth brings no man a fortune.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: truth
It is easier to conquer than to administer. With enough leverage, a finger could overturn the world; but to support the world, one must have the shoulders of Hercules.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature..
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: holistic
Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: civilization
The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTo discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.
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