“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the val…”

“To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never choose evil. We always choose the good, and nothing can be good for us without being good for all.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Title: Wikiquote: Jean-Paul Sartre
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Context

Existentialism and Human Emotions (1957)

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Sartre, Jean-Paul. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Jean-Paul Sartre. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Sartre

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