Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Religion Quotes

No doubt they thought that my shirts too smelt of heresy. (5.1.53)

Even though Rousseau is secretly scared of being labeled a heretic, he's got enough of a sense of humor to make fun of himself.

Believers in general create God in their own image. (6.1.10)

Rousseau's observations often come across as scornful, but he's totally fascinated with how religion makes people act.

I have never liked to pray in a room; walls and all the little works of man come between myself and God. (6.1.23)

Whenever Rousseau's in church, he worries that he'll get called out as a hypocrite. In the great outdoors, no one's around to judge.