Jean Jacques Rousseau Emile Quotes & Sayings

I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted, then and there, my place in this world. I was a fighter of windmills. I was a chaser of whales. — Percival Everett

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

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am. — David Fincher

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

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

How'd you sleep?"
"Like I was in paradise."
"I have no problems with you calling my body paradise. Do me a favor and spread the word. Chicks love that shit. — Cassie Mae

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

I do not believe ... I know. — Carl Jung

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

News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all. — Gay Talese

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 remember how when I felt lonely, I would whisper her name - our name - and hold my breath, waiting for an echo, certain that it would come someday. — Khaled Hosseini

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