A quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
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A quote by Jean-Paul Sartre
Most people fail not for lack of talent but for lack of imagination.
Bill Burnett • Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Walker Percy • A Confederacy of Dunces
As Sartre summed it up in an interview shortly after the lecture: There is no traced-out path to lead man to his salvation; he must constantly invent his own path. But, to invent it, he is free, responsible, without excuse, and every hope lies within him.
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
Why couldn’t teachers be geniuses, though, geniuses forged via passion manifested through practice?