Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
L'homme est condamne a' e" tre libre. Man is condemned to be free. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is the same: a chosen one is a man whom God's finger crushes against the wall. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is enough that one man hate another for hate to gain, little by little, all mankind. — 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
With despair, true optimism begins: the optimism of the man who expects nothing, who knows he has no rights and nothing coming… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
In any case, if you ever leave me with a handsome man, do not tell me that you trust me because, let… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I committed the first crime by creating men as mortals. After that, what more could you do, you the murderers? Come on;… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
I discovered suddenly that alienation, exploitation of man by man, under-nourishment, relegated to the background metaphysical evil which is a luxury. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
First all men must be able to become men by the improvement of their conditions of existence, so that a universal morality… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
God is dead. Let us not understand by this that he does not exist or even that he no longer exists. He… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Love or hatred calls for self-surrender. He cuts a fine figure, the warm-blooded, prosperous man, solidly entrenched in his well-being, who one… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone,… — 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… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
When my relations with the Communist Party gave me the necessary perspective I decided to write my autobiography. I wanted to show… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not enough to prove… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Understand me: I wish to be a man from somewhere, a man among men. You see, a slave, when he passes by,… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
We will freedom for freedom’s sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The world would get along very well without literature. It would get along even better without man. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
The painful secret of gods and kings is that men are free, Aegistheus. You know it and they do not. — 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
Un homme n'est rien d'autre qu'une se rie d'entreprises. A man is no other than a series of undertakings. — 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
“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