Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

» Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

» She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

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

» Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

» When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.

» Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.

» Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

» A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

» The existentialist says at once that man is anguish.

» It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

» Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

» Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

» Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

» Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.

» One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

» Life begins on the other side of despair.

» It is only in our decisions that we are important.

» To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

» Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

» The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

» Words are loaded pistols.

» Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

» Hell is other people.

» Acting is happy agony.

» Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.

» I confused things with their names: that is belief.

» Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total... because it may well involve the whole world.

» When the rich make war it's the poor that die.

» We must act out passion before we can feel it.

» I hate victims who respect their executioners.

» God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

» Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

» We do not judge the people we love.

» Existence precedes and rules essence.

» Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.

» Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

» Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

» If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

» No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.

» Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.

» If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

» Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

» We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact.

» That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

» Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

» If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.

» I say a murder is abstract. You pull the trigger and after that you do not understand anything that happens.

» Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

» There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

» All human actions are equivalent and all are on principle doomed to failure.

» As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

» If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

» My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking.

» For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

» The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.

» I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.

» Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

» What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.

» Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man's resources?

» When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

» Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

» I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.

» One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

» Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

» Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

» You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

» I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

» All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

» I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

» One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than you life.

» I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

» There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.

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