Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Independent, Men

• Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Nature, Children, Men

• I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Real, Passion, Heart

• Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Thinking, Childhood, Feelings

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1892). “Rousseau's Émile: Or, Treatise on Education”

• Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Giving, Soul, Feelings

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 2., 1908.

• 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

  Heart, Illumination, Soul

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953). “The Confessions”

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