"Nothing seemed true; I felt surrounded by cardboard scenery which could quickly be removed…."

- Antoine Roquetin, in Jean-Paul Sartres' Nausea.

Source: Jean-Paul Sartre. Nausea. 1959 edition, p. 106-7. Downloaded [2010-11-17] from Wikipedia.org URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(novel)

"People who live in society have learned to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. Is that why my flesh is naked? You might say - yes you might say, nature without humanity… Things are bad! Things are very bad: I have it, the filth, the Nausea"

- Antoine Roquetin, in Jean-Paul Sartres' Nausea.

Source: Jean-Paul Sartre. Nausea. 1964 edition, p. 29. Downloaded [2010-11-17] from Wikipedia.org URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nausea_(novel)

"Those who are living are responsible that the deeds and words of the dead - indeed, their freedom - will not pass into oblivion"

- Haim Gordon and Rivca Gordon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Source: Gordon, Haim and Riva Gordon. 1998. Sartre On Our Responsibility For Dead Lives: Implications For Teaching History. Paper for the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts August 10-15, 1998. The Paidea Archive. Available online from URL: http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Hist/HistGord.htm [Downloaded 2010-05-26]

"Sartre's thoughts on history and his writings about the past are very often provoking. They frequently challenge deep rooted assumptions, prevailing superficial ways of thinking, and accepted norms. (...) Sartre's insights often demand a rethinking of my relationship to specific events in the past, and a reassessment of my attitude to the field of history, be it defined as a story, a science, or a collective memory"

- Haim Gordon and Rivca Gordon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Source: Gordon, Haim and Riva Gordon. 1998. Sartre On Our Responsibility For Dead Lives: Implications For Teaching History. Paper for the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts August 10-15, 1998. The Paidea Archive. Available online from URL: http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Hist/HistGord.htm [Downloaded 2010-05-26]

"Many, if not most, historians rarely read books by philosophers"

- Haim Gordon and Rivca Gordon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Source: Gordon, Haim and Riva Gordon. 1998. Sartre On Our Responsibility For Dead Lives: Implications For Teaching History. Paper for the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts August 10-15, 1998. The Paidea Archive. Available online from URL: http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Hist/HistGord.htm [Downloaded 2010-05-26]

"History is not only a field in which you gather facts, events, and processes, but it is a worthy challenge which includes a grave personal responsibility: my responsibility to the dead lives"

- Haim Gordon and Rivca Gordon, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Source: Gordon, Haim and Riva Gordon. 1998. Sartre On Our Responsibility For Dead Lives: Implications For Teaching History. Paper for the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, in Boston, Massachusetts August 10-15, 1998. The Paidea Archive. Available online from URL: http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Hist/HistGord.htm [Downloaded 2010-05-26]

Once you hear the details of victory it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat
- Jean Paul Sartre