Emile Rousseau Quotes & Sayings

Even in five years time, he will still be four years younger than Damon Hill. — Murray Walker

Or, rather, let us be more simple and less vain. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time. — David Halberstam

Our wisdom is slavish prejudice, our customs consist in control,
constraint, compulsion. Civilised man is born and dies a slave.
The infant is bound up in swaddling clothes, the corpse is nailed
down in his coffin. All his life long man is imprisoned by our
institutions. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas. — Swami Vivekananda

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out. — Samuel Johnson

The star is the ultimate American verification of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile. His mere existence proves the perfectability of any man or woman. Oh wonderful pliability of human nature, in a society where anyone can become a celebrity! And where any celebrity ... may become a star! — Daniel J. Boorstin

I say to myself: Who are you to measure infinite power? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone. — Albert Camus

Etymologically, "compassion" means to suffer together. "Together," however, is different from "identically." Compassion is not the same as selflessness, and not really the opposite of selfishness. Rather, it provides a basis for helping other people that is materially disinterested but emotionally self-regarding. As Rousseau wrote in Emile, "When the strength of an expansive soul makes me identify myself with my fellow, and I feel that I am, so to speak, in him, it is in order not to suffer that I do not want him to suffer. I am interested in him for love of myself ... " Or, as Jean Bethke Elshtain has said, "Pity is about how deeply I can feel. And in order to feel this way, to experience the rush of my own pious reaction, I need victims the way an addict needs drugs. — William Voegeli

Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath,
but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every
part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life
consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living.
A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all.
He would have fared better had he died young. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As they baked in the sunlight, she let herself think it:
I have a crush on Richard Gansey. — Maggie Stiefvater

More than half of my life is past; I have left only the time I need for turning the rest of it to account and for effacing my errors by my virtues. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau