Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quote

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless.


Emile: Or, On Education (1762)


Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless.

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless.

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless.

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless.