Passion and divine signs provide no excuse for human actions.

Evidence

The existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never regard a grand passion as a destructive torrent upon which a man is swept into certain actions as by fate, and which, therefore, is an excuse for them. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion. Neither will an existentialist think that a man can find help through some sign being vouchsafed upon earth for his orientation: for he thinks that the man himself interprets the sign as he chooses. He thinks that every man, without any support or help whatever, is condemned at every instant to invent man. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 13

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Sartre’s refusal of both passion-as-fate and sign-as-guidance cuts deep: whatever meaning a sign has, the individual installs it, so even submission to a sign is already an act of self-invention.
• XREF: connects to: Crimes of passion require no theoretical justification because passion extinguishes reason — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 375

Related

• Crimes of passion require no theoretical justification because passion extinguishes reason (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Crimes of passion require no theoretical justification because passion extinguishes reason #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 375