Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes
Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Being and Nothingness. Translated by Hazel E. Barnes, Washington Square Press, 1993, p. 29.
This is a reversal of the famous Descartes quotation. See {631723}.
Although a heroine of modern conservatives, Rand was hostile to religion. Where most conservatives would refer to “God-given rights”, Ayn Rand, argued that a human’s very existance was the warrant and sanction of his rights.
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines.
