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Jean-Paul Sartre: top 300 quotes
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The Democrat (n.) lives naively, sentimentally, inauthentically in the future.
God's (n.) non-existence would mean that everything would be permitted.
God (n.) is the loneliness of mankind.
God (n.) is one who, if he does not exist, would leave us without any means of justification or excuse or luminous realm of values, either behind us or before us. We are left alone, without excuse.
Freedom (n.) is what you do with what's been done to you.
Freedom (n.) is that to which man is condemned. He did not create himself, yet he is nevertheless at liberty, and as soon as he is hurled into the world, he is responsible for everything else.
Freedom (n.) is the foundation of all values, and the actions of men of good faith have, as their ultimate significance, the quest of freedom as such.
Freedom (n.) is our curse — Man is condemned to be free.
Freedom (n.) is the human being placing his past off-sides, and secreting his own nothingness.
Consciousness (n.) is consciousness of something.
Consciousness (n.) is an entirely empty entity such that when I run after a streetcar, there is no me, only the-streetcar-having-to-be-overtaken.
Consciousness (n.) is an irreducible fact. To know is to 'burst toward', to veer out there beyond oneself such that I am beyond it, and it is beyond me. It is not a thing that organizes, but precisely that which is organized ever anew.
Consciousness (n.) is empty is a view that involves the denial not only of sensory qualities but also of the view that we are experientially aware of an ego within consciousness.
Consciousness (n.) is, from the start, torn away from itself to move out towards objects. This is the meaning of the well-known phrase, ë'all consciousness is consciousness of something.í.
Consciousness (n.) is, in its very structure, such that when I run after a streetcar, when I look at the time, when I am absorbed in contemplating a portrait, there is no I. I have disappeared... I have annihilated myself. There is no place for me on this level.
Consciousness (n.) is nothing more than directedness toward the world.
Consciousness (n.) is nothingness. It is not a thing, nor an object of consciousness. It is not caused and therefore free.
Consciousness (n.) plunges me into the world of objects such that when I run after a streetcar, there is no me, only the-streetcar-having-to-be-overtaken. There is no room for me on this level.
Consciousness (n.) imposes causal categories on the world.
Consciousness (n.) is a thing which, were it possible to enter 'into' (which it isn't), you would be seized by a whirlwind and thrown back outside, in the thick of the dust, near the tree, for consciousness has no outside.
Consciousness (n.) is a process which, when it tries to coincide with itself, closeted off, it destroys itself. Consciousness must exist as consciousness of something other than itself. This is the basis of 'intentionality'.
Consciousness (n.) is not self-consciousness. While I am reading, there is consciousness of the book, of the heroes of the novel, but the 'I' is not inhabiting this consciousness.
Consciousness (n.) is the absolute flight, the being-beyond-itself, the refusal to be a substance.
The Jew (n.) is made by the anti-semite.
Being (n.) is that which man, as he is born into a material universe that precedes him, is inserted into.
Being (n.) is an impossible goal which forms a self-estrangement that is part of the human condition (whereas for heidegger being is a constantly receding origin from which we are estranged).
Being (n.) is and non-being is not because being is logically prior to non-being and non-being exist only as a negation of being, as a borrowed being.
Being (n.) is fundamental and does not depend on anything else for its being, whereas non-being, the negation of being, is entirely dependent on being for its borrowed existence.
Anthropology (n.) seeks to define the essence of man and the human condition, in contrast to psychology which does not set out to define and limit (a priori) the object of its research.
Phenomenology (n.) is the study not of facts, but of phenomenon, and by phenomenon is meant 'that which announces itself', that of which the reality precisely is the appearance.
Phenomenology (n.) is contrasted with psychology in that, for the psychologist, things are studied as dead facts which simply are. For the phenomenologist, things are studied first as significant, and are affirmed to the degree that they signify.
Phenomenology (n.) is contrasted with psychology in that, while the psychologist will declare ignorance as to why 'emotion' exist and simply state it as a fact, the phenomenologist must note that every human fact is of its essence significant and undertakes to study that significance.
Communism (n.) is the unsurpassable horizon of our time.
Eating (n.) is appropriating by destruction.