“When a man gets drunk he gets sentimental. That's what I wanted to avoid.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In football everything is complicated by the presence of the opposite team. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“My existence began to worry me seriously. Was I not a simple spectre?” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no aim but what he sets himself. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“know very well that I don’t want to do anything: to do something is to create existence—and there’s quite enough existence as… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense of, and the of it is nothing other… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“If I didn't try to assume responsibility for my own existence, it would seem utterly absurd to go on existing.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Philosophy which does not help to illuminate the process of the liberation of the oppressed should be rejected. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“could we not conceive of a philosophy of existence linked, not solely to experiences of separation, forlornness, and profound melancholy, but also… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“For instance, there is something new about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or fork. Or else it's… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“But no: he was empty, he was confronted by a vast anger, a desperate anger, he saw it and could almost have… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“By extending the idea of natural law to the economic sphere - an inevitable but fundamental error - they (18th century philosophes)… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“A search for justification and the impossibility of justification are recurrent motifs in the philosophy of Sartre. His philosophy is one of… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“You talk a lot about this amazing flow of time but you hardly see it. you see a women, you think that… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Existentialism is no mournful delectation but a humanist philosophy of action, effort, combat, and solidarity. Man must create his own essence: it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“I realized that there was no half-way house between non-existence and this flaunting abundance. If you existed, you had to exist all… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“Let us see what words can do. Will you understand me, for a start, if I tell you that I have never… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“the humanist philosopher who bends over his brothers like an elder brother who is conscious of his responsibilities; the humanist who loves… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A man is always a teller of tales, he lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other.” — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“she has suddenly emptied herself of me, and all other consciousness in the world has also emptied itself of me. It seems funny. Yet… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
[Stéphane Mallarmé] theory of the hermetic is a mistake, but he can be only difficult to read when he has difficult things to say. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“She smiled. First I lost the memory of her eyes, then the memory of her long body. I kept her smile as long as… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
This is what I thought: for the most banal even to become an adventure, you must (and this is enough) begin to recount it.… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“I am free: there is absolutely no more reason for living, all the ones I have tried have given way and I can’t imagine… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“If I am not mistaken, if all the signs which have been amassed are precursors of a new overthrow in my life, well then… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
“I want to leave, go to some place where I will be really in my own niche, where I will fit in. . .… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share
