“Existence is prior to essence.”
Part 4, chapter 1
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Variant: Existence precedes and rules essence.
Quotes from book
Being and Nothingness
Jean Paul Sartre
Original title
L'Être et le Néant
,
Essai d'ontologie phénoménologique
(French, 1943)
Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology , sometimes published with the subtitle A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, is a 1943 book by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. In the book, Sartre develops a philosophical account in support of his existentialism, dealing with topics such as consciousness, perception, social philosophy, self-deception, the existence of "nothingness", psychoanalysis, and the question of free will.
Part 4, Chapter 2, III
Variant: Man is a useless passion.
Source: Being and Nothingness (1943)
Part 1, Chapter 1, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Part 4, Chapter 2, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Je suis condamné à être libre.
Part 4, chapter 1
Being and Nothingness (1943)
“All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.”
Conclusion, II
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Source: Being and Nothingness (1943), p. 237, 1998 edition
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Part 4, Chapter 1, III
Being and Nothingness (1943)
Context: I am responsible for everything … except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world … in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
