Paul Will
Paul Will
responsibility might existentialism
Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.
graduation freedom responsibility
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
fake-people hate judging
I hate victims who respect their executioners.
birthday philosophy race
Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.
travel adventure funny-travel
For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.
failure thinking battle
A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.
philosophy philosophical want
We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.
teacher teaching philosophical
As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.
confused names belief
I confused things with their names: that is belief.
our-actions way responsible
Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.
music hands giving
For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.
judgement may existence
Therefore, in the nature of this will for freedom, which freedom itself implies, I may pass judgement on those who seek to hide from themselves the complete arbitrariness and the complete freedom of their existence.
ideas giving photograph
Photographs are not ideas. They give us ideas.
attitude philosophy views
Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they collapse. Others take Philosophy for a specific attitude which we can freely adopt at will. Still others see it as a determined segment of culture. In our view Philosophy does not exist.