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French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980Related quotes
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 495
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“When God chooses to let himself be born in lowliness”
Source: 1850s, Practice in Christianity (September 1850), p. 34
Context: When God chooses to let himself be born in lowliness, when he who holds all possibilities in his hand takes upon himself the form of a lowly servant, when he goes about defenseless and lets people do with him what they will, he surely must know well enough what he is doing and why he wills it; but for all that it is he who has people in his power and not they who have power over him-so history ought not play Mr. Malapert http://www.archive.org/stream/villagedialogue01hillgoog#page/n121/mode/1up by this wanting to make manifest who he was.
“We choose convenience over individuality every time—every time.”
On Americans' consumption of popular music, 24 Hours of Love MTV2 Special (21 September 2005)
1996–2005
Harijan (1 February 1942) p. 27
1940s
“In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”
“The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself.”
Anarchism: Its Philosophy and Ideal (1896)
Context: When a physiologist speaks now of the life of a plant or of an animal, he sees rather an agglomeration, a colony of millions of separate individuals than a personality one and indivisible. He speaks of a federation of digestive, sensual, nervous organs, all very intimately connected with one another, each feeling the consequence of the well-being or indisposition of each, but each living its own life. Each organ, each part of an organ in its turn is composed of independent cellules which associate to struggle against conditions unfavorable to their existence. The individual is quite a world of federations, a whole universe in himself.