God
is a useless and costly hypothesis, so we will do without it.
"If
God did not exist, everything would be permitted"; and that, for existentialism,
is the starting point. Everything is indeed permitted
No
rule of general morality can show you what you ought to do: no signs are
vouchsafed in this world
Man
is the future of man
What
we choose is always the better; and nothing can be better for us unless it is
better for all.
The
action presupposes that there is a plurality of possibilities, and in choosing
one of these, they realize that it has value only because it is chosen
"Conquer yourself rather than the world," what
he meant was, at bottom, the same – that we should act without hope.
Man
is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realises
himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else
but what his life is.
In
order to define the probable one must possess the true.
The
other is indispensable to my existence, and equally so to any knowledge I can
have of myself
There
is always some way of understanding an idiot, a child, a primitive man or a
foreigner if one has sufficient information. In this sense we may say that
there is a human universality, but it is not something given; it is being
perpetually made
We
will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances.
If
I have excluded God the Father, there must be somebody to invent values
