Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes about Reflection

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Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

Ideas come in pairs and they contradict one another; their opposition is the principal engine of reflection.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Reflection, Ideas, Pairs

Jean Paul Sartre (1961). “Sartre on Cuba”

Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed...I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Reflection, Glasses, Heaven

Jean Paul Sartre (1955). “No exit, and three other plays”, Vintage