If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul SartreRead
I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote suggests that a lack of communication and understanding can lead to conflict and violence.
Jean-Paul Sartre's quote reflects the existentialist belief that individuals are shaped by their interactions and communication with others. He proposes that when people fail to express themselves or understand one another, it fosters misunderstanding and distrust, which can escalate into violence. Essentially, open communication is crucial for peace and harmony among individuals, and its absence can result in destructive outcomes.
Themes
CommunicationViolenceDistrustUnderstandingExistentialism
In practice
Example use cases
In a debate about social issues, one might use this quote to emphasize the importance of dialogue in preventing conflict.
More from Jean-Paul Sartre
All quotes βAll I want is' - and he uttered the final words through clenched teeth and with a sort of shame - 'to retain my freedom.' I should myself have thought,' said Jacques, 'that freedom consisted in frankly confronting situations into which one had deliberately entered, and accepting all one's responsibilities. But that, no doubt, is not your view.
Jean-Paul SartreRead
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
Jean-Paul SartreRead
A kiss without a moustache, they said then, is like an egg without salt; I will add to it: and it is like Good without Evil.
Jean-Paul SartreRead
I wanted pure love: foolishness; to love one another is to hate a common enemy: I will thus espouse your hatred. I wanted Good: nonsense; on this earth and in these times, Good and Bad are inseparable: I accept to be evil in order to become good.
Jean-Paul SartreRead
Night is falling: at dusk, you must have good eyesight to be able to tell the Good Lord from the Devil.
Jean-Paul SartreRead
Similar quotes
Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.
P. G. WodehouseRead
Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle, to join the collective nod. The insomniac brain is a sort of conspiracy theorist as well, believing too much in its own paranoiac importance--as though if it were to blink, then doze, the world might be overrun by some encroaching calamity, which its obsessive musings are somehow fending off.
Jonathan LethemRead
Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.
Christopher HitchensRead
Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families.
Neil Degrasse TysonRead
There is a Passion natural to the Mind of man, especially a free Man, which renders him impatient of Restraint.
George MasonRead
I have seen miracles in my time, my brothers and sisters. The greatest miracle of all, I believe, is the transformation that comes into the life of a man or a woman who accepts the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and tries to live it in his or her life.
Gordon B. HinckleyRead