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Groucho Marx said: I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member Sartre sharply found out, that to be an independent think
by PythonicAlpha 12y ago
Groucho Marx said:
I don't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member
Sartre sharply found out, that to be an independent thinker "about" society, he must not be entangled to much "into" society.
- blinkingled 12y agoSartre also said : Hell is other people.
- ekianjo 12y agoHe did not say that, it's what one character says in Huis Clos. That's just like saying Tyrion is actually expressing what George Martin thinks.
- blinkingled 12y agoYes but it was a reference to his other ideas and so not really limited to the one character in one play.
- PythonicAlpha 12y agoI guess, he knew why he made one person say that.
- danieldk 12y agoWhich is probably one of the most misunderstood citations in philosophy. It's the presence of other people that makes one acutely aware of oneself (since you are an object in the conscience of others). From L'Être et le Néant: But the Other is the indispensable mediator between myself and me. I am ashamed of myself as I appear to the Other.
- chenelson 12y agoIn this dance is you-Daniel, me-Che, and Other, of which I will never know.