‘Their thoughts are some one else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’
Jean-Paul Sartre proclaimed that humans come into existence with no definite identity – no inborn ‘central idea and purpose’ at all: ‘man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself’.
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Jean-Paul Sartre proclaimed that humans come into existence with no definite identity – no inborn ‘central idea and purpose’ at all: ‘man is nothing else but that which he makes of himself’.
How to be yourself, when you have no self. Lessons from Zhuangzi | Aeon Essays
As Zhuangzi saw, there is no immutably true self. Instead our identity is as dynamic and alive as a butterfly in flight
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