Patience patience quotes is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Jean-Jacques RousseauRead
There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Everyone has the potential for goodness, regardless of their past actions.
This quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau emphasizes the idea that every individual, even those who have committed wrongdoings, possesses an inherent capacity for goodness and can be redeemed or transformed. It reflects Rousseau's belief in the fundamental goodness of humanity and suggests that circumstances and choices can lead individuals astray, but that these can also be reversed, highlighting the potential for growth and change in every person.
Themes
GoodnessRedemptionHumanityChangePotential
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about rehabilitation versus punishment in criminal justice.
More from Jean-Jacques Rousseau
All quotes βThe infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauRead
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques RousseauRead
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
Jean-Jacques RousseauRead
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
Jean-Jacques RousseauRead
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; there the noise of the waves and the movement of the water, taking hold of my senses and driving all other agitation from my soul, would plunge me into delicious reverie in which night often stole upon me unawares.
Jean-Jacques RousseauRead
Similar quotes
The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different from facts and greater than facts, and not always their sum.
Bill RoorbachRead
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
Germaine GreerRead
I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)
C. S. LewisRead
When a nation is filled with strife, then do patriots flourish.
LaoziRead
Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves.
William IngeRead
I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, 'Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.'
PeleRead