It is not the same thing. You are perhaps not lying, but you are not telling the truth.
Use itGS4: half-truths—not lying is not the same as telling the truth.
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Jean-Paul Sartre quotes for UPSC
12 sourced quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre on duty & responsibility, integrity & honesty, equality & social justice, education & knowledge, economy, development & poverty, with a use case for each in GS4, Essay and interviews.
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Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
— Jean-Paul SartreExistentialism and Human Emotions (1957)
Use itGS4: our choices affect all humanity—responsibility beyond self.
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
— Jean-Paul SartreBeing and Nothingness (1943)
Use itGS4: freedom brings full responsibility for one's actions—no excuses.
This is the contradiction of racism, colonialism, and all forms of tyranny: in order to treat a man like a dog, one must first recognize him as a man.
— Jean-Paul SartreCritique of Dialectical Reason (1960)
Use itEssay on caste/racial discrimination; oppression contradicts the humanity it must first recognise.
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
Use itGS4/Essay on reform and rehabilitation; focus on what people can become.
Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.
Use itGS2/GS3: charity alone perpetuates poverty—argue for structural, rights-based welfare.
Translation: When the rich make war, it's the poor that die.
Use itEssay on war; the poor bear the human cost of wars waged by the powerful.
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.
Use itInterview: choose work that matches your strengths, not merely the hardest.
Life has no meaning a priori … It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.
Use itEssay on meaning of life; meaning is created by our own choices.
In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.
— Jean-Paul SartreCharacterizations of Existentialism (1944)
Use itLife/Essay: we define ourselves through struggle and action in the world.
If you are not already dead, forgive. Rancor is heavy, it is worldly; leave it on earth: die light.
Use itLife/GS4: forgiveness frees you—carrying grudges only weighs you down.
A man is what he wills himself to be.
Use itLife: willpower shapes who you become.