Quote of Jean-Paul Sartre - I can take my freedom as...

Biography - Jean-Paul Sartre:

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

Quote

I can take my freedom as a goal only if I take the freedom of others as a goal as well.”
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism

Translation

(French, German)

Je ne puis prendre ma liberté pour but, que si je prends également celle des autres pour but.”
Jean-Paul Sartre - L'existentialisme est un humanisme

Ich kann meine Freiheit nicht zum Ziel nehmen, wenn ich nicht zugleich die Freiheit der andern zum Ziel nehme.”
Jean-Paul Sartre - Der Existenzialismus ist ein Humanismus

Quotes about freedom:

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Soren Kierkegaard

Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."”
Hans Christian Andersen

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere.”
Nelson Mandela

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
Hannah Arendt

All about freedom...

Quotes about others:

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar Wilde - Quotation of uncertain origin

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

If we had no pride we should not complain of that of others.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

others

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
Anne Frank - The Diary of a Young Girl

All about others...

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.”
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism

Each man must invent his own path.”
Jean-Paul Sartre - The Flies

Existence precedes essence.”
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism

existence

I was allowed free run of the library and I stormed human wisdom.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

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.”
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism

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. ”
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism

to choose

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