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16. Persons / A. Concept of a Person / 4. Persons as Agents
Man is nothing else but the sum of his actions [Sartre]
     Full Idea: Man is nothing else but the sum of his actions.
     From: Jean-Paul Sartre (Existentialism and Humanism [1945], p.41)
     A reaction: This might be plausible if unperformed actions are included. For some people, their whole life story consists of what they failed to do.