Jean-Paul Sartre — Philosophical Quotes

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Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.”

Real Time Existential

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.”

World Understanding Doubt

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“Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him.”

Order God

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“I was a neophyte in another world [in 1954].”

World Another World

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“I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.”

Eye Nature Escaping

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“Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.”

Men Children Heart

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“There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.”

Human Nature Existentialism

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“Man is the being whose project it is to be God.”

Men Projects

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“Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.”

Men Choices Path

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“We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own. Obviously, freedom as the definition of a man does not depend upon others, but as soon as there is a commitment, I am obliged to will the liberty of others at the same time as my own. I cannot make liberty my aim unless I make that of others equally my aim.”

Doe Liberty Commitment

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“Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.”

Heaven Reflection Glasses

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“If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.”

Christian Race Humanity

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