Jean-Paul Sartre idézet

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„El akarok menni, el akarok menni valahová, ahol tényleg a helyemen lennék, ahol beilleszkednék... de az én helyem sehol sincs; nem vagyok kívánatos.”

„Mosolyogni fogok, és mosolyom elsüllyed a tanulóidban, és az ég tudja, mi lesz belőle.”

„A szabadság az, amit teszünk azzal, amit velünk tesznek.”

„Az ember szabadságra van ítélve; mert miután a világba kerül, mindenért felelős.”

„Mi a saját választásaink vagyunk.”

„Az ember nem annak az összege, amije már van, hanem annak az összege, amije még nincs, amije lehetne.”

„Kétféle szegény ember létezik, akik közösen szegények, és akik egyedül szegények. Az előbbiek az igazán szegények, a többiek a szerencsétlen gazdagok.”

„… a létezés olyan telítettség, amelytől az ember nem szabadulhat.”

„A doktor a tapasztalat profija: az orvosok, a papok, a bírók meg a katonatisztek úgy ismerik az embert, mintha ők teremtették volna.”

„A rosszban csak utána hisz az ember.”

„… az ember szabadságra lévén ítélve, az egész világ súlyát a vállán viseli: felelős a világért és önmagáért, mint létezési módozatért.”

„… vajon hogyan lehetséges, hogy a világ létezik – és nem a semmi?”

„Tudják, mennyire tisztelem Che Guevarát. Szerintem nem csak értelmiségi volt, hanem korunk teljesen egész embere: harcosként és férfiként, mint elméleti szakember, aki a forradalom ügyét úgy vitte előre, hogy az elméleteit a csatái személyes tapasztalataiból vezette le.”

„A gondolatom én vagyok: ezért nem bírom abbahagyni. Létezem, mert gondolkodom… és nem tudom megakadályozni, hogy gondolkodjam.”

„Minden neurózisnak az a sajátossága, hogy természetesnek tünteti föl magát …”

„A természetben nincsen dialektika, csak az amelyet belehelyeztek.”

„… a városoknak csak egyetlen napjuk van, s az minden reggel egyformán újrakezdődik.”

„… a dolgok pontosan azonosak azzal, aminek látszanak - és mögöttük … mögöttük nincs semmi.”

„Minden létező ok nélkül születik, gyöngeségből él tovább, és véletlenül hal meg.”

„Három óra: mindig túl kései, vagy túl korai időpont ahhoz, amit az ember éppen csinálni akar.”

„Önmaga számára lenni a másik… ez az elsődleges értéke a másokhoz való viszonynak.”

„Létezni annyi, mint itt lenni, egyszerűen csak annyi; a létezők megjelennek, lehetővé teszik, hogy találkozzunk velük, de levezetni sohasem lehet őket.”

„A fasizmust nem az áldozatok száma, hanem a gyilkolás módszere határozza meg.”

„Egymást szeretni annyi, mint gyűlölni a közös ellenséget.”

„Az élet a kétségbeesés másik oldalán kezdődik.”

„Mindent ki táláltak már, kivéve azt, hogyan kell élni.”

„A szavak töltött pisztolyok.”

„Minél több homok került ki életünk homokórájából, annál tisztábban kell átlátnunk rajta.”

„Az elkötelezettség egy tett, nem egy szó.”

„Jobb lábon állva meghalni, mint térden állva élni.”

„Lehet, hogy vannak még szebb idők, de ez a miénk.”

„Nem hitt semmiben; csak a szkepticizmusa tartotta vissza attól, hogy ateista legyen.”

„Úgy tűnik, mindent, amit az életemről tudok, könyvekből tanultam.”

„Az életnek eleve nincs értelme... Rajtad múlik, hogy adsz-e neki értelmet, és az érték nem más, mint az általad választott értelem.”

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

“This inner revolution is realistic because it maintains itself deliberately within the framework of existing institutions; the oppressed reckon with the real situation.”

“…inversion…is an outlet that a child discovers when he is suffocating.”

“I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.”

“What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal…. For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space.”

“The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.”

“He is dead, and my hatred has died with him.”

“He chooses the most feared, most hated man in order to worship him as a god, feeling sure that he is alone in perceiving the god’s secret virtues.”

“I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary.”

“That is precisely what we should have expected, since Genet wants to live simultaneously creation, destruction, the impossibility of destroying and the impossibility of creating, since he wants both to show his rejection of the divine creation and to manifest, in the absolute, human impotence as man’s reproval of God and as the testimony of his grandeur.”

“In order to make myself recognized by the Other, I must risk my own life. To risk one's life, in fact, is to reveal oneself as not-bound to the objective form or to any determined existence — as not-bound to life.”

“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.”

“We were too light, Electra. Now our feet press down in the earth like the wheels of a cart in its groove. Come with me, and we will walk heavily, bending under the weight of our heavy load.”

“Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.”

“Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.”

“The homosexual never thinks of himself when someone is branded in his presence with the name homosexual…. His sexual tastes will doubtless lead him to enter into relationships with this suspect category, but he would like to make use of them without being likened to them. Here, too, the ban that is cast on certain men by society has destroyed all possibility of reciprocity among them. Shame isolates.”

“But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.”

“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”

“Jupiter: I gave you the liberty to serve me.
Orestes: That is possible, but it has turned against you and there is nothing either one of us can do about it.”

“For Genet, reflective states of mind are the rule. And although they are of an unstable nature in everyone, in him…reflection is always contrary to the reflected feeling.”

“And we feel that the hero has lived all the details of this night like annunciations, promises, or even that he lived only those that were promises, blind and deaf to all that did not herald adventure. We forget that the future was not yet there; the man was walking in the night without forethought, a night which offered him a choice of dull rich prizes, and he did not make his choice.”

“His obedience is real since he really and truly fulfills his mission, since he runs real risks in order to carry out the beloved’s orders. But, on the other hand, it is imaginary because he submits only to a creature of his mind.”

“If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves “absent”, that is more proper.”

“With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming to him, who rejoices in counting on himself alone and in acting alone for the good of all.”

“The anti‐Semite has chosen hate because hate is a faith; at the outset he has chosen to devaluate words and reasons. How entirely at ease he feels as a result. How futile and frivolous discussions about the rights of the Jew appear to him. He has placed himself on other ground from the beginning. If out of courtesy he consents for a moment to defend his point of view, he lends himself but does not give himself. He tries simply to project his intuitive certainty onto the plane of discourse. I mentioned awhile back some remarks by anti‐Semites, all of them absurd: "I hate Jews because they make servants insubordinate, because a Jewish furrier robbed me, etc." Never believe that anti‐ Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.”

“I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.”

“The worst of misfortunes is still a stroke of luck, since one feels oneself living when one experiences it/”

“Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.”

“Only a neutral, who is indifferent to the stake and perhaps to all stakes, can appreciate aesthetically the grandeur of a fine disaster”