Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Memories, Smell, Desire

• Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Escaping, Desire, Slavery

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.88, Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Being wealthy isn't just a question of having lots of money. It's a question of what we want. Wealth isn't an absolute, it's relative to desire. Every time we seek something that we can't afford, we can be counted as poor, how much money we may actually have.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Desire, May, Want

• It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Desire, Oneself

• Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Desire, Philosopher

• The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Writing, Soul, Desire

• Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Soul, Doubt

• That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Desire, Doe

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.99, eKitap Projesi

• To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Giving, Desire

• Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is dependent on woman through his desires; woman is dependent on man through her desires and also through her needs; he could do without her better than she can do without him. She cannot fulfill her purpose in life without his aid, without his goodwill, without his respect.....Nature herself has decreed that woman, both for herself and her children, should be at the mercy of man s judgment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Children, Men, Desire

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.392, Courier Corporation

• It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Reality, Men

• Gracefulness cannot subsist without ease; delicacy is not debility; nor must a woman be sick in order to please. Infirmity, and sickness may excite our pity, but desire and pleasure require the bloom and vigor of health.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Order, Sick, Grace

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education”, p.186

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