Top 69 Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

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

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.

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

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

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself.