“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves.”
More from Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Philosophy
“Happy am I, for every time I meditate on governments, I always find new reasons in my inquiries for loving my own country.”
“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is; the people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived..." (Bk2:3)”
“The first sentiment of man was that of his existence, his first care that of preserving it.”
“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.”
“Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces.”
“I would rather be a man of paradoxes than a man of prejudices.”
“There is not a single ill-doer who could not be turned to some good.”
“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”