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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
Every belief is a belief that falls short; one never wholly believes what one believes.
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
To believe is to know that one believes, and to know that one believes is no longer to believe.
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
...man is a useless passion.
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation--by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain--time cures.
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
We have to deal with human reality as a being which is what it is not and which is not what it is.
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
From the very fact, indeed, that I am conscious of the motives which solicit my action, these motives are already transcendent objects from my consciousness, they are outside; in vain shall I seek to cling to them: I escape from them through my very existence. I am condemned to exist forever beyond my essence, beyond the affective and rational motives of my act: I am condemned to be free.
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
Nothingness carries being in its heart.
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
Temporality is obviously an organised structure, and these three so-called elements of time: past, present, future, must not be envisaged as a collection of 'data' to be added together...but as the structured moments of an original synthesis. Otherwise we shall immediately meet with this paradox: the past is no longer, the future is not yet, as for the instantaneous present, everyone knows that it is not at all: it is the limit of infinite division, like the dimensionless point."
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
The recruit who reports for active duty at the beginning of the war can in some instances be afraid of death, but more often he is 'afraid of being afraid'; that is, he is filled with anguish before himself.
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Jean-Paul Sartre _ Being and Nothingness
The appearance of the other in the world corresponds therefore to a congealed sliding of the whole universe.
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