It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.

the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.

Throughout the entire history of philosophy, philosophers have sought to discover what man is - or what human nature is. But Sartre believed that man has no such eternal nature to fall back on. It is therefore useless to search for the meaning of life in general. We are condemned to improvise. We are like actors dragged onto the stage without having learned our lines, with no script and no prompter to whisper stage directions to us. We must decide for ourselves how to live.

We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.

Some are more equal than others.

Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.

If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.