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Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Should
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1993). “The Social Contract ; And, The Discourses”, Everyman's Library

Trust your heart rather than your head.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Trust Your Heart

The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happiness, Laughter, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1861). “The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau”, p.346

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Laughter, Teaching, Heart

Men will argue more philosophically about the human heart; but women will read the heart of man better than they.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Men, Arguing

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Sports, Laughter, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.50, Courier Corporation

The mechanism she employs is much more powerful than ours, for all her levers move the human heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Powerful, Moving, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1783). “Emilius and Sophia: Or, A New System of Education”, p.234

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Life, Nature, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.169, Basic Books

Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Past, Joy

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”

Whence do I get my rules of conduct? I find them in my heart. Whatever I feel to be good is good. Whatever I feel to be evil is evil. Conscience is the best of casuists.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Evil, Be Good

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love, Hate, Heart

The majesty of the Scriptures strikes me with admiration, as the purity of the gospel has its influence on my heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Majesty, Scripture
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1767). “The Miscellaneous Works of Mr. J. J. Rousseau”, p.224

It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des autres que d'affecter de cacher le sien.]

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reading, Heart, Trying

Two things, almost incompatible, are united in me in a manner which I am unable to understand: a very ardent temperament, lively and tumultuous passions, and, at the same time, slowly developed and confused ideas, which never present themselves until it is too late. One might say that my heart and my mind do not belong to the same person.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Confused, Passion, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Confessions”, p.176, Everyman's Library

I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Real, Passion, Heart

Our passions are the chief means of self-preservation; to try to destroy them is therefore as absurd as it is useless; this would be to overcome nature, to reshape God's handiwork. If God bade man annihilate the passions he has given him, God would bid him be and not be; He would contradict himself. He has never given such a foolish commandment, there is nothing like it written on the heart of man, and what God will have a man do, He does not leave to the words of another man. He speaks Himself; His words are written in the secret heart.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mean, Passion, Heart
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2009). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.384, The Floating Press

Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Heart, Men, Liberty
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.524, Courier Corporation

To try to conceal our own heart is a bad means to read that of others.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mean, Heart, Trying

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