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The
act is everything. |
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For
the being of an existent is exactly what it appears. |
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I am,
I exist, I think, therefore I am, I am because I think, why do I think ? I don't want to
think any more, I am because I think that I don't want to be. |
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A
body without a conscience cannot be anything else without the help of an other object.For
example, a rock cannot be anything else than a rock, but if a human comes along,that human
can use it as a weapon. |
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The
conscience is separate of the body, and can "detach itself", upon the death of
the body. |
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Man
has a human nature, this human nature, which is the concept of the human, is found in all
men, which means that each man is a particular example of a universal concept. |
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We
can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without
being good at all. |
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Man
is nothing else but what he makes of himself. Such is the first principle of
existentialism. It is also what is called subjectivity. |
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Therefore,
I am responsible for myself and for everyone else. I am creating a certain image of man of
my own choosing. In choosing myself, I choose man. |
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It is very distressing that God does not exist, because all possibility of finding values in a heaven of ideas disappears along with him. |
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Man
is defined by what he can know. |
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Truth is the
being-as-it-is of a being for an absolute subject. |
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Truth is
subjective. |
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Either man is
wholly determined or else man is wholly free. |
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Man is wholly
free. Since we are free we are responsible for our actions. |
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Everything has
been figured out, except how to live. |
