Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Soul, Mind, Proportion

• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. Is it astonishing that often these two languages contradict each other, and then to which must we listen? Too often reason deceives us; we have only too much acquired the right of refusing to listen to it; but conscience never deceives us; it is the true guide of man; it is to man what instinct is to the body; which follows it, obeys nature, and never is afraid of going astray.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Men, Two

• Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Passion, Voice, Soul

  "Emile: Or, On Education".

• As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Night, Lakes, Islands

• Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Giving, Soul, Feelings

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 2., 1908.

• But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Soul, Citizens

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2007). “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”, p.78, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Heart, Illumination, Soul

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1953). “The Confessions”

• Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Faith, Soul, Individual

• Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Fire, Inspire, Soul

  'La Nouvelle Hèloise' (1761, ed. M. Launay, 1967) pt. 2, letter 11

• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  People, Soul, Spurs

• It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Simple, Expression, Soul

• 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

• Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Order, Soul, Doubt

• 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

• The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Soul, Taste, Splendor

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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