This is a personal journal--a collection of thoughts from a student of philosophy.
Reading Jean-Paul Sartre moves me nearly to tears.
What the fuck.
1.) “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.”
2.) “I hate victims who respect their executioners.”
3.) “People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?”
4.) “As if there could be true stories: things happen in one way, and we retell them in the opposite way.”
5.) “I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
6.) “Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.”
7.) “All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.”
8.) “Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.”
9,) “One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.”
10.) “If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.”
11.) “If you die, I will lie down beside you and I will stay there until the end, without eating or drinking, you will rot in my arms and I will love you as carcass: for you love nothing if you do not love everything.”
How can someone make coherent such incredible sentiments. Gah. <3
I experience the same thing. Especially with the first quote you gave (I bolded). I don’t agree with really anything about his philosophy (existentialism is almost too flowery and magical to actually be considered philosophy), but he has a beautiful mind.
