Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Human Quotes

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The body politic, like the human body, begins to die from its birth, and bears in itself the causes of its destruction.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We are born, so to speak, twice over; born into existence, and born into life; born a human being, and born a man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Astronomy was born of superstition; eloquence of ambition, hatred, falsehood, and flattery; geometry of avarice; physics of an idle curiosity; and even moral philosophy of human pride. Thus the arts and sciences owe their birth to our vices.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The human soul needs to be mated to develop all its value.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All those observers who have spent their lives in the study of the human heart, know less about the signs of love than the most brainless, yet sensitive woman.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A man philosophizes better than a woman on the human heart, but she reads the hearts of men better than he.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Let us not forget what befits our present state in the pursuit of vain fancies. Mankind has its place in the sequence of things; childhood has its place in the sequence of human life; the man must be treated as a man and the child as a child. Give each his place, and keep him there. Control human passions according to man's nature; that is all we can do for his welfare. The rest depends on external forces, which are beyond our control.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau