#sartre

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#sartre #nature

Amuse yourself, torment your desires. Drink when you're thirsty -- that would be very much too simple! If you didn't harbour a temptation eternally in your soul, you'd run the risk of forgetting yourself. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#lucifer-and-the-lord #sartre #thirst #respect

The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

#himself #man #philosophers #question #raise

A friend of mine that I was in a band with started me on Kafka, which in turn led to Camus and Sartre. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#friend #i #kafka #led #me

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#i #liked #sartre #views #writing

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#monotony #nausea #sartre #change

French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#french-intellectuals #lacan #sartre #life

I'd come to realize that all our troubles spring from our failure to use plain, clear-cut language. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#jean-paul-sartre #language #the-plague #existentialism

Man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#philosophy #sartre #existentialism

I was much influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#influenced #much #sartre