Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.

It is peculiar to mankind to transcend mankind.

Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.

What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

Man - a being in search of meaning.

How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings.

It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

Where do we come from? What are We? Where are we going?

The whole life of the individual is nothing but the process of giving birth to himself; indeed, we should be fully born when we die.

There are no "facts"- there is only the fact that man, every man everywhere in the world, is on his way to ordination. Some men take the long route and some take the short route. Every man is working out his own way and nobody can be of help except by being kind, generous, and patient.

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

We are born to live, we are born to understand, we are born to carry a cursed pattern and be transformed by pain.

Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and what makes it sacred is that in the process of this journey you encounter the holy in various forms which, unless you have your eyes open, you might not even notice.

The answer to the nature of our existence is somewhere in the middle, and that, of course, is what we're looking for: how to see ourselves in a new picture of ourselves and understand the questions that humans have asked forever, "Who are we, how did we get here, where are we going, and what's the nature of this reality that we're in?"

Your life is your story, and the adventure ahead of you is the journey to fulfill your own purpose and potential.