Top 69 Quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

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

I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.

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

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

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

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.