On Jean-Paul Sartre ♥ Birthday

Sartre by Antanas Sutkus, 1965

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❝ L'enfer, c'est les Autres.

Hell is Other People.

  

❝ L'homme est condamné à être libre ; condamné parce qu'il ne s'est pas crée lui-même, et par ailleurs cependant libre parce qu'une fois jeté dans le monde, il est responsable de tout
ce qu'il fait.

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

 

❝ Le fascisme n'est pas défini par le nombre de ses victimes, mais par la façon dans laquelle il les tue.

Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims,
but by the way it kills them.

"on the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg",
Libération (22 June 1953)

- Jean-Paul Sartre -

June 21, 1905 - April 15, 1980

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir at Balzac Memorial, 1939

Jean-Paul and his cat Rien

Transcript Released of Sartre Visit to RAF Leader Andreas Baader

Transcript Released of Sartre Visit to RAF Leader Andreas Baader
© Der Spiegel

God is the solitude of men. There was only me: I alone decided to commit Evil; alone, I invented Good. I am the one who cheated, I am the one who performed miracles, I am the one accusing myself today, I alone can absolve myself; me, the man.

- Jean-Paul Sartre -
Le diable et le bon dieu

The thing which was waiting was on alert, it pounced on me, it flows through me. I'm filled with it. It's nothing: I am the Thing.
Existence, liberated, detached, floods over me. I exist.

- Jean-Paul Sartre -
from On Existence

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.

- Jean-Paul Sartre -