71 Quotes by Jean Jacques Rousseau

A feeble body weakens the mind.

The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind.

An intelligent being, is the active principle of all things. One must have renounced all common sense to doubt it, and it is a waste of time to try to prove such self evident truth.

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

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

You are worried about seeing him spend his early years in doing nothing. What! Is it nothing to be happy? Nothing to skip, play, and run around all day long? Never in his life will he be so busy again.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

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