Rousseau

Famous quotes containing the word rousseau:

    We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

    No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

    Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
    —Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)