One can judge a man by saying that he deceives himself. Since we have defined the situation of man as one of free choice, without excuse and without help, any man who takes refuge behind the excuse of his passions, or by inventing some deterministic doctrine, is a self-deceiver.
 Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism (1946). copy citation

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Author Jean-Paul Sartre
Source Existentialism Is a Humanism
Topic choice passion
Date 1946
Language English
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Note Translated by Philip Mairet
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