Best quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Man

Checkout quotes by Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Man

• ‟ No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  

• ‟ Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide?

  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  

• ‟ Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains.

  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  

• ‟ We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  

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

  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  

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

  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  

• ‟ 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.

  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  

• ‟ 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.

  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  

• ‟ Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  

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

  - Jean-Jacques Rousseau