On June 21, 1905, Jean-Paul Sartre (Jean-Paul Sartre), a French philosopher and author, was born, one of the main figures of existentialist philosophy and philosophy in general - including Marxist philosophy of the 1980th century. Sartre also influenced sociology, criticism, literary studies. He was engaged until the end of his life (XNUMX).
In 1964, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his work full of ideas filled with the spirit of freedom in search of truth, exerting a very wide influence in our age". Many people were surprised when Sartre refused the award saying that he had always refused official honors and that "a writer should not allow himself to become an institution".
In the summer of 1968, during the protests in Paris, Sartre was arrested for civil disobedience. President Charles de Gaulle intervened and released him: "You don't arrest Voltaire", he said.
On purpose "challenging every idea and every person", Sartre's assertions demand that we accept responsibility for our choices and our world, embracing the inconceivable unknown. His devastating philosophy of being and nothingness continue to plunge people into their deepest existential crises.
Below are 30 of his expressions:
• I want to leave, go somewhere where I really belong, where I fit in... but my place is nowhere, I'm unwanted. • Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal. • Anything, anything would be better than the agony of the mind, this pain that eats away but never hurts enough • Hell is other people. • "We don't know what we want and we are still responsible for what we are." • Everything has been discovered except how we live • Everything that exists is born without reason, lingers in a weak state, and dies at random • We must discover our passion before we feel it. • Man is not the sum of the things he has, but the sum of those he does not have and those he could have • Three o'clock in the morning is always too early or too late to do what you want. • One is what he will seek to be and what he will become. • God is absence. God is the loneliness of man. • Man is a vain passion. • Man is condemned to be free, because as soon as he is thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. • It is not terrible to suffer, nor to die, but to die in vain. • Life begins on the other side of despair. • All human activities are equivalent ... and all are in principle doomed to failure. • It is certain that we cannot escape anxiety, because we are anxiety itself. • I know that I will never meet a person who will inspire me with passion. A job is also called starting to love someone. You must have energy, generosity and blindness. • Words are loaded pistols. • I am no longer sure of anything. If I indulge my desires, I have sinned, but I separate myself from them. If I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul. • A person always dies too early or too late. And, again, life is there. The line is drawn and everything needs to add up. You are nothing but your life. • Our responsibility is much greater than we have assumed, because it involves all of humanity. • I like all dreamers. I mistake disappointment for truth. • Oh, how I hate the crimes of the new generation. They are dry and sterile. • Time is too big, it cannot be filled. Everything you do falls apart. • To eat is to absorb destruction. • Hitch stays coiled in the heart like a worm. • Don't you feel the same way? When I don't see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist. • I exist, that's all, and I find it disgusting. /Telegraph/
