Just got done with Mark Twain’s “The mysterious stranger.”

It was so great! 

‘Hell is other people.’    

Corrections made about the common misconceptions involving this quote. When non-philosophers interpret this quote they see it as being misanthropic, which it is not. The quote comes from the play “No exit” by Sartre. In this play charectors are trapped in a room and subsequently, with nothing else to do, they talk about their lives. By the end they all end up in confrontation with eachother. This quote is about projectivism, and existential anguish. Projectivism is when you perceive things around you through a subjective lens that reflects your hopes, and fears. As in the charecters saw all of their faults being displayed by the other chatrecters by seeing through their subjective lenses. Be that they were seing their fears and guilt come alive, hell is other people, because they make you realize your terror you feel in regards to your actions. Next to existential anguish, the tenant says that, we go by the idea that we should act in accordance to how everyone should act to make the world a better place. Anguish manifests when you ask yourself “What would humanity resemble if everyone acted in the manor that I do.” And mixed with projectivism (which forces you to realize the answer) you throw yourself into complete and utter anguish. So please all of you misanthropes, stop misinterpreting something so complex into something very base.

(Source: michaelpitted)

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