January 2010
27 posts
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can...
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via pedder) (via justanothernancyboy)
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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness...
– Albert Camus
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At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
– Albert Camus
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When I chose the hardest path, I made my choice deliberately. A man is what he...
– Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit. (via shynessisnice)
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You are—your life, and nothing else.
– Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit. (via shynessisnice)
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So long as one has not studied the structures of the future in a defined...
– Sartre, Search for a Method, 97 (via micronarratives)
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He was free, free in every way, free to behave like a fool or a machine, free to...
– Jean-Paul Sartre in The Age of Reason (1945) (via predatorywaspobserver)
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It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes...
– Sartre (via quote-book)
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Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out...
– Jean Paul Sartre (via the9th)
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I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the...
– Existentialism and Human Emotions - Jean-Paul Sartre (via internaldialogue)
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it...
– Albert Camus (via booklover) (via jjarichardson) (via ataxiwardance) (via sunshadowpoet)
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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (via theanimalinme) (via tobia) (via rhea137) (via leda-swanson) (via cargohoo) (via beelockwood) (via aboveall-love)
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The existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never...
– Sartre, “Existentialism Is a Humanism” (via fuckyeahphilosophy) (via phasechangesyndrome)
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Man’s conscience doesn’t determine his existence. His social being...
– Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
…if one is to account for the possibility of Evil, one has to presuppose a...
– Slavoj Žižek about Philosophical Inquiries into the Essence of Human Freedom (1809)
Only he who has tasted freedom can feel the desire to make over everything in...
– Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (Philosophical Inquiries into the Nature of Human Freedom, 1809)
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sarahbelfort:
For a moment I felt myself covered in armor.
How distant, for example, are the muscles of my arms.
— Franz Kafka, diary entry for 21 February 1911
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
– Albert Camus
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then,...
– Soren Kierkegaard (via afterthestorm) (via saramaile)