The words of
Jean Paul Sartre
(1905-1980)

French existentialist philosopher and left-wing intellectual who wrote of the individual's dilemma of choice and the difficulties of finding meaning by being responsible in this indifferent world. In his view, "man is condemned to be free".

 

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Slime is the agony of water.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Should I betray the proletariat to serve truth or betray truth in the name of the proletariat?

Everything has been figured out except how to live.

There are two kinds of existentialist; first, those who are Christian...and on the other hand the atheistic

Existentialists, among whom...I class myself. What they have in common is that they think that existence precedes essence, or, if you prefer, that subjectivity must be the turning point.

The existentialist says at once that man is anguish

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