Authors — Quotes

Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes: 10

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
The Social Contract and Discourses
Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain.
Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man
I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.
I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
The truth brings no man a fortune.
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
Emile or On Education
I say to myself: "Who are you to measure infinite power?