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)
Jan 31st
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Jan 30th
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“At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness...”
– Albert Camus
Jan 30th
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“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
– Albert Camus
Jan 30th
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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)
Jan 29th
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“You are—your life, and nothing else.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit. (via shynessisnice)
Jan 29th
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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)
Jan 29th
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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)
Jan 29th
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“It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes...”
– Sartre (via quote-book)
Jan 29th
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“Nausea: it spreads at the bottom of the viscous puddle, at the bottom of out...”
– Jean Paul Sartre (via the9th)
Jan 29th
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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)
Jan 29th
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Jan 27th
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Jan 27th
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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)
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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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)
Jan 25th
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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)
Jan 25th
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“Man’s conscience doesn’t determine his existence. His social being...”
– Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis (Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)
Jan 23rd
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“…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)
Jan 20th
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“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)
Jan 20th
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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
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”
– Albert Camus
Jan 15th
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Jan 12th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 7th
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“Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then,...”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via afterthestorm) (via saramaile)
Jan 5th
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