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Action Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
- If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.
- Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either…
- Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that…
- Lord, you have cursed Cain and Cain’s children: thy will be done. You have allowed men’s hearts to be corrupted, that their intentions be rotten,…
- All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
- One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly,…
- Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.)
- Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the…
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