“It is better to meet one's existence with disgust, than never to meet it at all.” What Sartre is saying is that it is better to determine who you are in dissatisfaction, than to never truly discover yourself. Sartre's worst fear in life would be realizing that he had never truly lived. For example, if you were to pursue a career you were not interested in and were simply going through the motions of everyday life, Sartre would say that life is not a life worth living. Sartre's goal in life was to reach the highest level; he said that life is “nausea” because we are always trying to reach the next level, we are always in motion. Sartre had two theories that determine our way of life, Being-in-itself and Being-for-itself. Being-In-Itself is the ultimate level, if you reach this level you have completely realized yourself, you have lived your life to the fullest. Being-for-itself is where we are as humans, always trying to work to become perfect. Our goal in life is to find an authentic existence, and we get there by saying no. Sartre's philosophy of freedom is achieved by saying no, when we say no we give ourselves the possibility of what we do in our life. By saying no, we receive the freedom of our life. “You should say no to every belief if there is a doubt about it.” Sartre also says that our human existence is always present
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