“ But the man whose blood is poor is not a coward for all that, for what produces cowardice is the act of giving up or giving way; and a temperament is not an action. A coward is defined by the deed that he has done. What people feel obscurely, and with horror, is that the coward as we present him is guilty of being a coward. What people would prefer would be to be born either a coward or a hero. ”
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946). copy citation
Author | Jean-Paul Sartre |
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Source | Existentialism Is a Humanism |
Topic | cowardice action |
Date | 1946 |
Language | English |
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Note | Translated by Philip Mairet |
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