Quotes Flashcards
Socrates says “To find yourself,….”
think for yourself.
Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation ___, or undue depression in ___ - Socrates
in prosperity/ adversity.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but _____. Socrates
on building the new
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is ______ -Plat
when men are afraid of the light
Existence precedes ____ . Jean Paul Sartre
essence
Hell is ____ - Jean-Pau
other people
“The real political task in a society such as ours is to criticize the workings of institutions that appear to be both _________, to criticize and attack them in such a manner that the political violence that has always exercised itself obscurely through them will be ______ so that one can fight against them.” ― Michel Foucault,
neutral and independent/ unmasked,
Man is condemned to be ____ because once thrown into the world, ________.
free/ he is responsible for everything he does
“I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in . . .__________.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted
Through the lack of attaching myself to ___ my thoughts remain _____ most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are ____; I forget them almost immediately.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
words,nebulous, swallowed up
________, like sudden giddiness, I feel them being born behind my head … if I yield, they’re going to come round in front of me, between my eyes, and I always yield, the thought grows and grows and there it is, immense, filling me completely and renewing my existence.”
Thoughts are born at the back of me
______, and if it were not for the contingency of death, he would never end.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
He is always becoming
