Jean-Paul Sartre: Cytaty po angielsku

Jean-Paul Sartre był powieściopisarz, dramaturg, eseista i filozof francuski, noblista. Cytaty po angielsku.
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“Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten, that their actions putrefy and stink: thy will be done.”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Characterizations of Existentialism (1944)

“You see, I divide men into three categories: those who have a lot of money, those who have none at all and those who have a little. The first want to keep what they have: their interest is to maintain order; the second want to take what they do not have: their interest is to destroy the existing order and to establish one which is profitable to them. They each are realist, people with whom one can agree. The third group want to overthrow the social order to take what they do not have, while still preserving it so that no one takes away what they have. Thus, they preserve in fact what they destroy in theory, or they destroy in fact what they seem to preserve. Those are the idealists.”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 3, sc. 3
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“Commoners are weightless. But he was a royal bon vivant who, no matter what, always weighed 125 kilos. I would be very surprised if he didn’t have a few pounds left.”

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Jean Paul Sartre The Flies

A soldier in Argos, speaking of the dead King Agamemnon, Act 2
The Flies (1943)

“To whomever gives a kiss or a blow
Render a kiss or blow
But to whomever gives when you are unable to return
Offer all the hatred in your heart
For you were slaves and he enslaves you”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka The Devil and the Good Lord

À celui qui donne un baiser ou un coup
Rendez un baiser ou un coup
Mais à celui qui donne sans que vous puissiez rendre
Offrez toute la haine de votre coeur
Car vous étiez esclaves et il vous asservit
Acts 8 & 9
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“I know nothing, I am neither woman nor girl; I have been living in a dream and when someone kissed me, it made me want to laugh. Now I am here before you, it seems as though I have just awakened and it is morning.”

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Jean Paul Sartre Dirty Hands

Act 6, sc. 2
Dirty Hands (1948)

“esse est percipi, and he recognizes himself as being only insofar as he is perceived.”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka Saint Genet

Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
Oryginał: (46).

“the martyr’s reflex”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka Saint Genet

(463).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“A man who belongs to some communist or revolutionary society wills certain concrete ends, which imply the will to freedom, and that freedom is willed in community. We will freedom for freedom’s sake, and in and through the particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others depends upon our own.”

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Źródło: Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), pp. 51-52

“First, what do we mean by anguish? The existentialist frankly states that man is in anguish. His meaning is as follows-When a man commits himself to anything, fully realizing that he is not only choosing what he will be, but is thereby at the same time a legislator deciding for the whole of mankind-in such a moment a man cannot escape from the sense of complete and profound responsibility.”

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Źródło: Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), p. 30

“What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world—and defines himself afterwards. If man as the existentialist see him is not definable, it is because to begin with he is nothing. He will not be anything until later, and then he will be what he makes of himself. Thus, there is no human nature, because there is no God to have a conception of himself. Man simply is.”

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Źródło: Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946), p. 28

“The anti‐Semite understands nothing about modern society. He would be incapable of conceiving of a constructive plan; his action cannot reach the level of the methodical; it remains on the ground of passion. To a long‐term enterprise he prefers an explosion of rage analogous to the running amuck of the Malays. His intellectual activity is confined to interpretation; he seeks in historical events the signs of the presence of an evil power. Out of this spring those childish and elaborate fabrications which give him his resemblance to the extreme paranoiacs. In addition, anti‐Semitism channels evolutionary drives toward the destruction of certain men, not of institutions. An anti‐Semitic mob will consider it has done enough when it has massacred some Jews and burned a few synagogues. It represents, therefore, a safety valve for the owning classes, who encourage it and thus substitute for a dangerous hate against their regime a beneficent hate against particular people. Above all this naive dualism is eminently reassuring to he anti‐Semite himself. If all he has to do is to remove Evil, that means that the Good is already given.”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka Anti-Semite and Jew

He has no need to seek it in anguish, to invent it, to scrutinize it patiently when he has found it, to prove it in action, to verify it by its consequences, or, finally, to shoulder he responsibilities of the moral choice be has made. It is not by chance that the great outbursts of anti‐Semitic rage conceal a basic optimism. The anti‐Semite as cast his lot for Evil so as not to have to cast his lot for Good. The more one is absorbed in fighting Evil, the less one is tempted to place the Good in question. One does not need to talk about it, yet it is always understood in the discourse of the anti‐Semite and it remains understood in his thought. When he has fulfilled his mission as holy destroyer, the Lost Paradise will reconstitute itself. For the moment so many tasks confront the anti‐Semite that he does not have time to think about it. He is in the breach, fighting, and each of his outbursts of rage is a pretext to avoid the anguished search for the Good.
Pages 31-32
Anti-Semite and Jew (1945)

“To shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time.”

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Jean Paul Sartre

Miscellaneous <br class="br">Źródło: The Doctor Prescribed Violence https://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/02/books/the-doctor-prescribed-violence.html, Adam Shatz Sept. 2, 2001, New York Times

“...the impossible must be supposed in order to explain the superdetermination of the event”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka Saint Genet

Źródło: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 301

“...for one cannot enter an image unless one makes oneself imaginary”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka Saint Genet

Źródło: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 297

“He wanted to assume his entire condition, to carry the world on his shoulders and to become, in defiance of all, what all have made of him.”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka Saint Genet

Źródło: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 384

“What matters is not what is being done of us, but what we do ourselves with what has been done of us.”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka Saint Genet

Oryginał: (fr) L’important n’est pas ce qu’on fait de nous mais ce que nous faisons nous-même de ce qu’on a fait de nous.
Źródło: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p.55

“For man holds his ground only by surpassing himself, in the same sense in which it is said that one ceases to love if one does not love increasingly everyday.”

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Jean Paul Sartre książka Saint Genet

Źródło: Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952), p. 238