Jean-Paul Sartre
10 quotes
“What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal.... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space. On Alberto Giacometti 's work, Situations , in Braziller”
“A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words. Refusing the Nobel Prize , New York Times”
“Marxism and Subjectivity”
“Writing Itself: On Roland Barthes,”
“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good , and nothing can be good for us without being good for all. Existentialism and Human Emotions”
“Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind. Existentialism and Human Emotions”
“On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg ,”
“He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well”
“He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to accept, free to refuse, free to equivocate; to marry, to give up the game, to drag this death weight about with him for years to come. He could do what he liked, no one had the right to advise him, there would be for him no Good or Evil unless he thought them into being. L'âge de raison ( The Age of Reason )”
“Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom . L'imagination ( Imagination: A Psychological Critique )”