Jonathan Swift vs. Jean-Paul Sartre
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Jonathan Swift
1943 – 2010
Jonathan Swift was an Anglo-Irish writer, essayist, satirist, and Anglican cleric. He was the author of the satirical prose novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) and the creator of the fictional island of Lilliput. He is regarded by many as the greatest satirist of the Georgian era and one of the foremost prose authors in the history of English and world literature.
"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."
Jean-Paul Sartre
1905 – 1980
French existentialist philosopher, playwright, and activist.
"It answers the question that was tormenting you: my love, you are not 'one thing in my life' - not even the most important - because my life no longer belongs t…"
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