Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes About Consciousness

Quotes about: Consciousness

• We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Responsibility, Men, Liberty

• One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito, if used rightly, is the awareness of pure consciousness, not directed at any fact or action. In fact the I is not necessary here, since it is never united directly to consciousness. One can even imagine a pure and self-aware consciousness which thinks of itself as impersonal spontaneity.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Self, Facts

• Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Imagination, Realizing, Consciousness

• A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Reflection, Consciousness, Pale

• The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Thinking, Consciousness

• Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Consciousness, Conscious, Nothingness

  Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.225, Open Road Media

• Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards from without, in the manner of divine understanding.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Understanding, Doubt, World

  "Saint Genet, Actor and Martyr". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, 141, 1952.

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