يا مكوّن الأكوان, أنا موجود لأنك موجود, إن أصررت على تأمل ذلك فلأني متعطش إلى المنبع توّاق إلى عين الحق. أعزّ ما أجني من استعمال العقل هو التفاني في جلالك. إن عقلي لينبهر, ويحلو لي القصور والعجز إذ أشعر بعزك وجبروتك.
Jean-Jacques Rousseauانزع من قلب الإنسان حب الجمال تسلب الحياة روعتها وجاذبيتها.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: philosophy nature
How could I become wicked, when I had nothing but examples of gentleness before my eyes, and none around me but the best people in the world?
Jean-Jacques RousseauIn fact, the real source of all thosedifferences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas thecitizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in theopinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely fromtheir judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: philosophy nature-of-man
In fact, the real source of all those differences, is that the savage lives within himself, whereas the citizen, constantly beside himself, knows only how to live in the opinion of others; insomuch that it is, if I may say so, merely from their judgment that he derives the consciousness of his own existence.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: philosophy nature-of-man
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.
Jean-Jacques RousseauIt is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: bias
In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may injure us more seriously, but it will not wound us so deeply as a stone thrown deliberately by a malevolent hand. The blow may miss, but the intention always strikes home.
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: imagination
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