If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
Jean-Paul SartreRead
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Sartre expresses disdain for the lack of vitality and creativity in the new generation's actions.
In this quote, Jean-Paul Sartre critiques the new generation's behavior, likening their actions to 'dry and sterile' plants. He suggests that the moral and creative richness of past generations is lacking, emphasizing a sense of disappointment in the cultural and ethical standards of contemporary society, which he perceives as unoriginal and devoid of passion.
Themes
CrimesNew GenerationDrySterileDisdain
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about youth culture and creativity, one might use this quote to emphasize concerns about originality.
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
This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.
Arthur SchopenhauerRead
I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.
Edward AbbeyRead
I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.
Maya WileyRead
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
Ernest HemingwayRead
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond TutuRead
He saw something that makes a man doubtful of the constancy of the realities outside himself. It was the shocking discovery that makes a man wonder if I've missed this, what else have I failed to see?
John SteinbeckRead