Existentialism and Human Emotions

I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing

In this war which I have chosen I choose myself from day to day, and I make it mine by making myself. If it is going to be four empty years, then it is I who bear the responsibility for this.

Descartes said, “Conquer yourself rather than the world,

Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.”

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Subjectivism means, on the one hand, that an individual chooses and makes himself; and, on the other, that it is impossible for man to transcend human subjectivity.

And when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.

Thus, existentialism’s first move is to make every man aware of what he is and to make the full responsibility of his existence rest on him.

Because by the word “will” we generally mean a conscious decision, which is subsequent to what we have already made of ourselves.

Not what he will want to be