Jean-Paul Sartre - All human actions are equivalent and...

All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Biography

Author Profession: Philosopher

Nationality: French

Born: June 21, 1905

Died: April 15, 1980

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Related Authors

Albert Camus, Blaise Pascal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Montesquieu, Michel de Montaigne, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Simone Weil, Jean de la Bruyere

Topics

Actions, Doomed, Equivalent, Failure, Human, Human Actions, Principle

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