Jean Jacques Rousseau: Zitate auf Englisch

“I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“… in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau buch Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechtes

“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau buch Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechtes

“Trust your heart rather than your head.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“The truth brings no man a fortune.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau buch Confessions

“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau buch Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechtes

“There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“We must powder our wigs; that is why so many poor people have no bread.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces… But I loved her”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau buch Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechtes

“Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Every man having been born free and master of himself, no one else may under any pretext whatever subject him without his consent. To assert that the son of a slave is born a slave is to assert that he is not born a man.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau buch Vom Gesellschaftsvertrag oder Prinzipien des Staatsrechtes

“I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Love, known to the person by whom it is inspired, becomes more bearable.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau

“It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau buch Confessions

“Absolute silence leads to sadness. It is the image of death.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau