Quotes

[ayoub]

Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

Picked up "Being and Nothingness" on a whim today, this should be fun :)

Comments

[msshopaholic.livejournal.com]

That second quote is interesting.. I am not sure what he's getting at as I thought genorsity and giving were one and the same. Or maybe I just can't comprehend Sartre at 5:30am!!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Probably the 5:30 am :P

[msshopaholic.livejournal.com]

Now I'm going to be thinking about this all day!

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

LOL!

Let me know what you think :)

[inmyocean.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I agree with that second quotation. I've read it a few times and still I sit here and shake my head.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I feel he's talking about posessing the feeling of giving. He has some interesting ideas about the existence of objects though, I'll talk more about it as I read :)

[msshopaholic.livejournal.com]

You know what I'm thinking on that one now.. that the act of generosity isn't one of true giving, it's of collecting favors. So you possess these favors and it's not truly giving cause at some point you're going to collect on those favors and therefore there is some semblance of indebtedness. Does that make sense?

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yes it does :)

[msshopaholic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for making me think about something other than work today. Not that I didn't do work, but my attention wandered a bit.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

I put up a new discussion on it :)

[pan16.livejournal.com]

I love that first quote. To me it sounds like he's saying that we are the sum of our potential. I agree with that wholeheartedly.

[ayoub.livejournal.com]

Yes... and I agree...