The consciousness that says 'I am' is not the consciousness that thinks. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Imagination is not an empirical or superadded power of consciousness, it is the whole of consciousness as it realizes its freedom. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
One can ask why the I has to appear in the cogito {Descartes’ argument “I think therefore I am.}, since the cogito,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Consciousness is a being the nature of which is to be conscious of the nothingness of its being. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
A pale reflection of myself wavers in my consciousness...and suddenly the “I” pales, pales, and fades out. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Abjection is a methodological conversion, like Cartesian doubt and Husserlian epoche: it establishes the world as a closed system which consciousness regards… — 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 Image
“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 Image
[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 Image
I can always choose, but I ought to know that if I do not choose, I am still choosing. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image