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
Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man exists, turns up, appears on the scene and only afterwards, defines himself — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.) — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When I can't see myself in the mirror, I can't even feel myself, and I begin to wonder if I exist at… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“If... if I didn't try to get my life moving on my own account, I should think it just absurd to go… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you seek authenticity for authenticity's sake you are no longer authentic. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To choose this or that is to affirm at the same time the value of what we choose, because we can never… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The For-itself, in fact, is nothing but the pure nihilation of the In-itself; it is like a hole of being at the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Once liberty has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods can do nothing against that man. — 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