Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  War, Believe, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2010). “The Basic Political Writings (Second Edition)”, p.69, Hackett Publishing

• Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Listening, Immigration, Earth

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2005). “On the Origin of Inequality”, p.62, Cosimo, Inc.

• At first we will only skim the surface of the earth like young starlings, but soon, emboldened by practice and experience, we will spring into the air with the impetuousness of the eagle, diverting ourselves by watching the childish behavior of the little men or awling miserably around on the earth below us.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Spring, Men, Air

• I was not much afraid of punishment, I was only afraid of disgrace.But that I feared more than death, more than crime, more than anything in the world. I should have rejoiced if the earth had swallowed me up and stifled me in the abyss. But my invincible sense of shame prevailed over everything . It was my shame that made me impudent, and the more wickedly I behaved the bolder my fear of confession made me. I saw nothing but the horror of being found out, of being publicly proclaimed, to my face, as a thief, as a liar, and slanderer.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Liars, Should Have, Punishment

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1971). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”

• Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Past, Joy

• Supreme happiness consists in self-content; that we may gain this self-content, we are placed upon this earth and endowed with freedom.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Self, Earth, May

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.292, Courier Corporation

• Every blue-stocking will remain a spinster as long as there are sensible men on the earth.
  [Fr., Toute fille lettree restera fille toute sa vie, quand il n'y aura que des hommes senses sur la terre.]

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Women, Blue, Long

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