Wisdom Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" - Rousseau”

“The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying”

“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.”

“It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.”

“To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.”

“The friend is a human Eden”

“Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action.”

“Two people can wear rings, share vows, and still feel miles apart — because time doesn’t bond people. Truth and real love does.”

“Time is the ultimate teller of truth.”

“You have to be ill if you want to get better.”

“Rules give structure to the process, but wisdom gives life to it. The art lies not in strictness, but in knowing when to adapt.”