Jean Paul Sartre
(1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
“Life as the product of life. However far man may extend himself with his knowledge, however objective he may appear to himself - ultimately he reaps nothing but his own biography.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 513
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
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Das Leben als Ertrag des Lebens. - Der Mensch mag sich noch so weit mit seiner Erkenntniss ausrecken, sich selber noch so objectiv vorkommen: zuletzt trägt er doch Nichts davon, als seine eigene Biographie.
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
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