Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes About Truth

Quotes about: Truth

• General abstract truth is the most precious of all blessings; without it, man is blind; it is the eye of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Truth, Eye, Men

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “The Confessions of J.J. Rousseau: With The Reveries of the Solitary Walker”

• Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Truth, Philosophical, Infinity

• Abstract truth is the eye of reason.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Truth, Eye, Reason

• Sacrifice life to truth.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Truth, Sacrifice

• My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are.... If I want to depict spring, it has to be in wintertime; if I want to describe a beautiful landscape, I must be enclosed within walls; and I have said a hundred times that if I were put in the Bastille, there I would paint a picture of liberty.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Beautiful, Wall, Truth

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