Quote by JeanPaul Sartre

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

Summary

This quote suggests that the act of eating involves taking something for ourselves by destroying it in the process. It highlights the harsh reality that in order to sustain ourselves and survive, we must consume and often this comes at the expense of other living beings or resources. It emphasizes the inherent nature of our existence, where we depend on the act of appropriation through destruction to meet our basic needs.

Topics

Food

By JeanPaul Sartre

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and de

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

Henri de Lubac, Paradoxes

Habits

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

Family

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or acco

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Success

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets p

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

Selfishness

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of comp

Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness.

Boredom

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

Nothing can stop me from loving my brother.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be playe

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

Hope

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the tru

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

Death Truth Lie

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be anoth

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.

Madeleine L'Engle

Life Death Mortality Awareness

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Love Darkness Gift Box

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner bette

I am going to miss that time when you take that corner better than anybody else could have taken it on that lap or you do that great qualifying lap or you make that great pass or you bring a crippled car home.

Car