Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

French writer and philosopher

Lived from: 1712 - 1778

Category: Philosophers | Writers (Contemporary) Country: France

Born: 28 june 1712 Died: 2 july 1778

Quotes 61 till 67 of 67.

• 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
  - +

   0
• We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

  ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  - +

   0
• We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

  ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  - +

   0
• We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

  ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  - +

   0
• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

  ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  - +

   0
• Whoever blushes confesses guilt, true innocence never feels shame.

  ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  - +

   0
• With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.

  ― Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• experienced
• ourselves
• confesses
• innocence
• kindness
• requires

Similar authors

• Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer 176
• Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) 134
• Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) 132
• Victor Hugo
  French writer 78
• Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer 70
• Anatole France
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) 57
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
  French writer 49
• André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) 45

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations