Jean Paul Sartre: Citáty v angličtine (page 14)

Jean Paul Sartre bol francúzskya existenciálny filozof, dramatik, prozaik, scenárista, politický aktivista, autor životopisov a literárny kritik. Citáty v angličtine.
Jean Paul Sartre: 383   citátov 129   Páči sa

“The anti‐Semite understands nothing about modern society. He would be incapable of conceiving of a constructive plan; his action cannot reach the level of the methodical; it remains on the ground of passion. To a long‐term enterprise he prefers an explosion of rage analogous to the running amuck of the Malays. His intellectual activity is confined to interpretation; he seeks in historical events the signs of the presence of an evil power. Out of this spring those childish and elaborate fabrications which give him his resemblance to the extreme paranoiacs. In addition, anti‐Semitism channels evolutionary drives toward the destruction of certain men, not of institutions. An anti‐Semitic mob will consider it has done enough when it has massacred some Jews and burned a few synagogues. It represents, therefore, a safety valve for the owning classes, who encourage it and thus substitute for a dangerous hate against their regime a beneficent hate against particular people. Above all this naive dualism is eminently reassuring to he anti‐Semite himself. If all he has to do is to remove Evil, that means that the Good is already given. He has no need to seek it in anguish, to invent it, to scrutinize it patiently when he has found it, to prove it in action, to verify it by its consequences, or, finally, to shoulder he responsibilities of the moral choice be has made. It is not by chance that the great outbursts of anti‐Semitic rage conceal a basic optimism. The anti‐Semite as cast his lot for Evil so as not to have to cast his lot for Good. The more one is absorbed in fighting Evil, he less one is tempted to place the Good in question. One does not need to talk about it, yet it is always understood in the discourse of the anti‐Semite and it remains understood in his thought. When he has fulfilled his mission as holy destroyer, the Lost Paradise will reconstitute itself. For the moment so many tasks confront the anti‐Semite that he does not have time to think about it. He is in the breach, fighting, and each of his outbursts of rage is a pretext to avoid the anguished search for the Good.”

Jean Paul Sartre kniha Anti-Semite and Jew

Pages 31-32
Anti-Semite and Jew (1945)

“Don’t you feel the same way? When I cannot see myself, even though I touch myself, I wonder if I really exist.”

Estelle, discovering that there are no mirrors in Hell, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)

“Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.”

Jean Paul Sartre kniha The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 10, sc. 2
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“…in order to change poverty into wealth, one must start by displaying it.”

Jean Paul Sartre kniha Saint Genet

(420).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.”

Jean Paul Sartre kniha Saint Genet

Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)
Zdroj: Book 2, "The Melodious Child Dead in Me"

“…the reality of society involves the socialization of certain unrealities.”

Jean Paul Sartre kniha Saint Genet

455
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)

“I know only one Church: it is the society of men.”

Jean Paul Sartre kniha The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

“The dreamer must contaminate the others by his dream, he must make them fall into it”

Jean Paul Sartre kniha Saint Genet

(399).
Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr (1952)