[T]he man who meditates is a depraved animal.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: reflection
There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: freedom-slavery
What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?
Jean-Jacques RousseauMy love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
Jean-Jacques RousseauEven the soberest judged it requisite to sacrifice one part of their liberty to ensure the other, as a man, dangerously wounded in any of his limbs, readily parts with it to save the rest of his body.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: liberty decision sacrifice
Alas, it is when we are beginning to leave this mortal body that it most offends us!
Jean-Jacques RousseauEverything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment...
Jean-Jacques RousseauThe strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty
Jean-Jacques RousseauIf we assume man has been corrupted by an artificial civilization, what is the natural state? the state of nature from which he has been removed? imagine, wandering up and down the forest without industry, without speech, and without home.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI don't know how this lively and dumb scene would have ended , or how long I might have remained immoveable in this ridiculous and delightful situation , had we not been interrupted.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTags: reveries-of-a-solitary-walker
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