Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.
Quotes about sartre (8 Quotes)
I would rather be eating cheese and reading Sartre on the banks of the river Seine than eating popcorn with a born again bible-belt fundamentalist Republican administration in Crawford, Texas, execution capital of the world.
Sartre smoked. Colette, George Sand, Marguerite Duras, Andr Gide -- they all smoked, ... We have a long history of great thinking here, with coffee and cigarettes.
I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre.
The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself.
(on Sartre) Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.
John Paul Sartre became a hero in literature, philosophy, sociology and political science even though his popularity largely depended on his politics, and he was wrong on the most important issues of his time, championing Marxism in spite of the tyranny it spawned.
Then we are assured by Sartre that owing to the final disappearance of God our liberty is absolute At this the entire audience waves its hat or claps its hands. But this natural enthusiasm is turned abruptly into something much less buoyant when it is learnt that this liberty weighs us down immediately with tremendous responsibilities. We now have to take all God's worries on our shoulders --now that we are become ''men like gods.'' It is at this point that the Anxiety and Despondency begin, ending in utter despair.