Jean Paul Sartre: Frasi in inglese (pagina 12)

Jean Paul Sartre era filosofo, scrittore, drammaturgo e critico letterario francese. Frasi in inglese.
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“Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.”

L'imagination (Imagination: A Psychological Critique) http://encarta.msn.com/quote_561556153/Imagination_Imagination_is_not_an_empirical_or.html (1936)

“Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.”

"On the Execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg," Libération (22 June 1953)

“If we must absolutely mention this state of affairs, I suggest that we call ourselves “absent”, that is more proper.”

Estelle, refusing to use the word “dead”, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)

“The anti‐Semite has chosen hate because hate is a faith; at the outset he has chosen to devaluate words and reasons. How entirely at ease he feels as a result. How futile and frivolous discussions about the rights of the Jew appear to him. He has placed himself on other ground from the beginning. If out of courtesy he consents for a moment to defend his point of view, he lends himself but does not give himself. He tries simply to project his intuitive certainty onto the plane of discourse. I mentioned awhile back some remarks by anti‐Semites, all of them absurd: "I hate Jews because they make servants insubordinate, because a Jewish furrier robbed me, etc." Never believe that anti‐ Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti‐Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past. It is not that they are afraid of being convinced. They fear only to appear ridiculous or to prejudice by their embarrassment their hope of winning over some third person to their side.”

Pages 13-14
(1945)