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Quote of Jean-Paul Sartre - To choose an adviser is nevertheless...


Biography - Jean-Paul Sartre:

French philosopher, playwright and novelist.
Born: 1905 - Died: 1980
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: France
France

To choose an adviser is nevertheless to commit oneself by that choice.



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Translation

(French)



French
Choisir le conseilleur, c'est encore s'engager soi-même.




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Know or listen to those who know.




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To choose, and therefore exclude.





The kind of philosophy one chooses thus depends on the kind of person one is.





In one sense choice is possible, but what is not possible is not to choose. I can always choose, but I must know that if I do not choose, that is still a choice.





There is no sense in life a priori. Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose.





To choose life, is to always choose the future.





Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.











Quotes

Jean-Paul Sartre also said...


when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.





Each man must invent his own path.





Existence precedes essence.





I was allowed free run of the library and I stormed human wisdom.





The Other is on principle inapprehensible; he flees me when I seek him and possesses me when I flee him.





I can take my freedom as a goal only if I take the freedom of others as a goal as well.












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