Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Philosophy
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Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.
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A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them; and he tries to live his life as if he were recounting it.
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Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other than the sense you choose.
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Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
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It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are.
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Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.
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We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
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When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.
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Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
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If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
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Man is condemned to be free
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Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected.
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Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself.
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