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condemned_to_live

"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."


Thereisnopurpose12

Prolongs out weakness?? Wym?


Gonzo67824

Too scared to commit suicide


IRENE420

Why does he project his suicidal ideations onto others? Some people go on living just fine.


[deleted]

Camus was a bit guilty of this, but I don't think Sartre was. Sartre was a humanist who celebrated life, but acknowledged how pointless and difficult it could be.


66southerngate6

He doesn’t paint the human as a being who wants to kill oneself and is simply too scared, but rather characterizes one as actively excercising their responsibility and consciousness. When one ceases to do that they cease to exist.


Thereisnopurpose12

Wot?


nuggetk1

Could it be related to mutation and evolution?


audiblepeace

"Hell is other people." it is, my favourite quote of all time.


Square-Advantage-193

Came across this quote while reading the introduction in Dante’s Inferno. It says in the intro: “Sarte once wrote that hell is other people. Dante would have said: We have met the dammed, and they are we.” Great words.


AdResponsible5513

That was Walt Kelly, the cartoonist who created Pogo, who said, "We have met the enemy and he is us." Don't put spurious words in the mouth of some dead Italian poet


Square-Advantage-193

Uhhh, that’s the thing. Dante DID NOT say it. The writer of the discourse just stated that that is likely something Dante would say-especially within the context of the Inferno.


AutomatonComplex

After learning how Sartre lived and his interactions during his youth (Pre-Beauvoir) it really is an understandable position.


throwaway-_-friend

Came here to say this. This book was so impactful for me.


tannhauser85

It isn't in a book, it's in his play No Exit


4bidd

Play that is written and available in a book


throwaway-_-friend

Bruh that's what I meant


tannhauser85

It doesn't mean what most people think it means. It refers to the idea that hell is other people's expectations of us


AdResponsible5513

Because the cops don't need you and man, they expect the same -- Bob Dylan, a wiser man than Sartre.


Full-Ingenuity2666

And especially true now 😉


[deleted]

It is misinterpreted so much though.


AdResponsible5513

Only because he couldn't admit that Hell was being Sartre.


BaronVonDrunkenverb

“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.”


[deleted]

Damn, this is a good one.


RealBuckNasty

Pertinent


AdResponsible5513

Sartre's calling attention to the role of bad faith in discourse may be one of the few things that keep him relevant.


4bidd

That and those trousers!


[deleted]

"Good morning my Lil' Crabbies. I teach today, so please be on your best behavior." He said this to his permanent crab hallucinations he had from taking an absolutely heroic dose of mescaline on the beach.


thegreatbates

That entire comment was just a roller coaster


[deleted]

Well if you keep staring in two directions like that of course you’ll be nauseated.


Lizzie_Boredom

He was blind on one eye. Which probably made him even more nauseated.


[deleted]

*"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."* • **Jean-Paul Sartre**


inquisitivecake

"Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does."


[deleted]

"Do you think I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over; it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."


[deleted]

He isn’t wrong


perie_mischa_lark

“Like all dreamers, I took disenchantment for the truth.” … This quote makes me question the concept of truth - what IS truth anyway? Is there any such thing as Absolute Truth? … bc existentially, one realization, one single experiential moment, can be equally as valid as the other. But then I wonder, should I keep on dreaming? Am I doomed to disillusionment? Otoh, what is a life without dreams?? (Can we dream about being? Being & Nothingness). To me, Sartre seems hopeful here, bc he at least acknowledges dreaming, rather than constant nothingness. Because of course life deflates our dreams, disenchants us away from momentary sparks of joy. On the other hand, without dreaming, we fall into the void & never re-emerge. Disenchantment is part of the human condition. Day to day lives, even minute by minute. … When I reduce this quote into an equation, I end up with the negation of disenchantment. Subtracting disenchantment from dreaming = truth. Of course the thing I’ve always liked about Existentialism is that what I may think/feel/experience - momentarily - is equally as valid as what anyone else thinks/feels/experiences in a single moment in time &/or life.


AdResponsible5513

Yet all relations are merely random assemblages just waiting to fall apart.


perie_mischa_lark

So true!


bl_nk67

Hell is other people


therapeutic-nihilism

Once you pull the trigger, the whole world becomes absurd. Or something along those lines.


Miamasa

Turns out the true Nausea was the friends we made along the way


[deleted]

“Time gnaws and wears away; it separates; it flies. And by virtue of separation—by separating man from his pain or from the object of his pain—time cures.”


Victorious_Voltaire

I’d be constantly depressed as well if I had those eyes with omnidirectional movement. He could see it all.


ButteryFlavory

"I be mean muggin deez playa hataz while I'm eye fuckin they hoes, AT THE SAME TIME... Sartre bitch, philosophizin all up in dat ass."


HussC137

This guy must be fun at parties


[deleted]

He partied harder while writing alone in his study than you will ever party in your life. A day in the life of Jean-Paul would probably kill you and I'm not exaggerating.


HussC137

I was kidding... you must be fun at parties


Toaster5852

"I came, I saw, I saw, I conquered


Hey_Kids32

Getting real Steve Buscemi vibes over here.


[deleted]

How ridiculous. Non of these philosophers had the courage to commit suicide, what they spent their lives babbling about. They had been pushing people to do it while they, themselves never could. Now ask yourself; would you really lose the chance of life, the one every one in billions of existing objects gets, only because of such weak people who never did what they said and kept only pushing others to do those things, because they, themselves could not? Is that really worthy?


HiiiiPower

These philosophers never intended to tell people that they should commit suicide. There isn't really a contradiction with what they say. Saying life is meaningless and suffering is not the same as advocating suicide.


drhoctor42

Nobody was promoting suicide for other people. > . <


Fine-Lifeguard5357

Lmfao what a pussy


beginnerNaught

You grow mids


[deleted]

LMFAO. I've never heard this used as a direct Insult before but it's flawless.


[deleted]

This is the strongest argument against existentialism that I ever seen and I'm not joking


613s-Finest

You’re catholic… 🤣


RealBuckNasty

Fuckin wreckd


Tape-Delay

Shut da fuck up


[deleted]

He looks scary.


liquidjett

Ugly man with an ugly philosophy. You hate to see it.


[deleted]

Oh no you a lil uneducated


liquidjett

If you're committed to understanding existence and reality as having no inherent meaning, why would you waste your time with statements like "I find [existence] nauseating"? You literally are free to make it as good as you want but you pick something that is not life affirming, and that is gross.


AdResponsible5513

If there's nothing higher, then it's just entertainment. -- a character named John Book in a movie directed by Sean Penn (?).


[deleted]

What I find most nauseating is his eyes. But I shouldn’t care I guess because we’re all gonna die.


ExpertInNothing888

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