Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes about Soul

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The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

The mind grows narrow in proportion as the soul grows corrupt.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Soul, Mind, Proportion

The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Soul, Taste, Splendor

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2012). “The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two "Discourses" and the "Social Contract"”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

Had I no other proof of the immortality of the soul than the oppression of the just and the triumph of the wicked in this world, this alone would prevent my having the least doubt of it. So shocking a discord amidst a general harmony of things would make me naturally look for a cause; I should say to myself we do not cease to exist with this life; everything reassumes its order after death.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Order, Soul, Doubt

Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Believe, Soul, Doubt

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”

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Faith, Soul, Individual

It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Simple, Expression, Soul

But in some great souls, who consider themselves as citizens of the world, and forcing the imaginary barriers that separate people from people.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People, Soul, Citizens

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2007). “Discourse on the Origin of Inequality”, p.78, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Conscience is the voice of the soul, the passions are the voice of the body. It is strange that these voices often contradict each other?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Passion, Voice, Soul

"Emile: Or, On Education".

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People, Soul, Spurs

Accent is the soul of language; it gives to it both feeling and truth.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Giving, Soul, Feelings

"A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, Both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tryon Edwards, p. 2., 1908.

Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the source of the sacred fire which so often inflamed us with love of the sublime virtues; that is where you will see the eternal image of true beauty, the contemplation of which inspires us with a holy enthusiasm.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fire, Inspire, Soul

'La Nouvelle Hèloise' (1761, ed. M. Launay, 1967) pt. 2, letter 11