#197 / Other People

According to Sartre, "Hell is other people." At least, that is what Sartre had one of his characters assert in his existentialist play, No Exit. 

The-Philosophy.com website tries to explain (or explain away) this quote. 

Kirk Woodward, quoted in a blog called Rick On Theatre, calls the "Hell is other people" statement "The Most Famous Thing Jean-Paul Sartre Never Said."

Here is what I think. I think that other people (all of them) are what make this life so wonderful, and make our lives worth living. See below, as anecdotal evidence: a picture by the incomparable Shmuel Thaler, a photographer for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, my hometown newspaper.

The photograph shows people celebrating in the streets of Paris, on Bastille Day, July 14, 2018. 

Aren't we lovely?

Image Credits:

(1) - https://www.the-philosophy.com/sartre-hell-is-other-people

(2) - https://www.facebook.com/shmuel.thaler/posts/10215875125647680