Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• 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 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

• 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

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

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Philosophical, Desire, Philosopher

• Sovereigns always see with pleasure a taste for the arts of amusement and superfluity, which do not result in the exportation of bullion, increase among their subjects. They very well know that, besides nourishing that littleness of mind which is proper to slavery, the increase of artificial wants only binds so many more chains upon the people.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Art, People, Mind

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “The Social Contract”, p.369, Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Mom, Husband, World

• 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

• 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

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