Jean-Paul Sartre. Existentialism is a humanism (№ 409327)

As André Gide put it well, the feeling that is portrayed and the feeling that is experienced are almost indistinguishable. Deciding that I love my mother and staying with her, or acting out a comedy as if I'm staying for my mother is almost the same thing. In other words, the feeling is created by the actions that we do. I cannot, therefore, turn to feeling in order to be guided by it. And this means that I can neither seek in myself such a true state that would induce me to act, nor demand from any morality to prescribe how I should act. However, you object, because he also turned to the teacher for advice. The fact is that when you go for advice, for example, to a priest, it means that you have chosen this priest and, in fact, you already more or less imagined what he would advise you. In other words, choosing an advisor is again deciding on something yourself.