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Who Said It: Jaden Smith Or Jean-Paul Sartre?

50 years ago, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature but he turned it down. Is Jaden Smith his contemporary incarnate?

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  1. 1. "Unawareness is the only sin"

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Jaden is the author behind this insight.

  2. 2. "The human consciousness must raise before I speak my juvenile philosophy."

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    This gem has been brought to you by Jaden Smith.

  3. 3. "Why is it so important to think the same things all together”

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964

  4. 4. "Most trees are blue"

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    This is all Jaden.

  5. 5. “Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do”

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964

  6. 6. "Nothing has changed and yet everything is different"

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964

  7. 7. "School is the tool to brainwash the youth"

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Jaden tweeted this.

  8. 8. “I do not think therefore I am a moustache”

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964

  9. 9. "Did we die yet"

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Jaden exclaimed this on Twitter.

  10. 10. "Don't tell the police I fell asleep in the crease of reality"

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    From Jaden's song "Blue Ocean"

  11. 11. “Time is too large, it can't be filled up"

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964

  12. 12. "It's raining umbrellas"

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    From Jaden's song "Blue Ocean"

  13. 13. "It would be much better if I could only stop thinking"

    Correct! 
    Wrong! 

    Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964

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