No Small Mind - Jean Paul Sartre

I am going to be doing profiles of short men of history and present as well who are spectacular achievers.  They either overcame their slight statures or even used it to their benefit and can be an inspiration for men everywhere.

The first bio is of the French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre.

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Like many, what Sartre lacked in physical prowess he made irrelevant by the strength of his sheer brilliance. Sartre took on the most fundamental of life's questions such as "who am I?" and "what does it mean to be, to exist".  Thus, his great contributions to philosophy were in the area known as "Existentialism".

Not only was he one of the greatest minds of his time, he was also extremely successful with the opposite sex. His on-off long time lover, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir was not only not short, she was a very tall woman. Yet she burned for Sartre her whole life, so much so that she let him screw other women and would even engage in menage a trois with him.

Sartre showed us that a powerful mind can overcome physical deficiencies that the weak minded general public make such a BIG deal of.

   -Fester