Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.”

“Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.”

“Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.”

“The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it.”

“It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.”

“Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.”

“We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.”

“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”

“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.”

“Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.”