Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Life, Time, Philosophical

• 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

• Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Laughter, Teaching, Heart

• I will say little of the importance of a good education; nor will I stop to prove that the current one is bad. Countless others have done so before me, and I do not like to fill a book with things everybody knows. I will note that for the longest time there has been nothing but a cry against the established practice without anyone taking it upon himself to propose a better one. The literature and the learning of our age tend much more to destruction than to edification.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Educational, Book, Practice

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau “Jean-Jacgues Rousseau Emile or On Education”, Рипол Классик

• A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Thinking, Hands

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.53, eKitap Projesi

• It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Science, Technology, Age

• O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Birthday, Regret, Age

• If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Woe Unto, Yield

• Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Sports, Laughter, Heart

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.50, Courier Corporation

• Women speak at an earlier age, more easily, and more agreeably than men; they are accused also of speaking more; this is as it should be, and I willingly change the reproach into a eulogy.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Eulogy, Age

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